Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Rituals [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam [Browse]
• Salat [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The prayer ritual based on the practices of the 12 Shiʻite Imams. Text is on fol. 3b-443b and is preceded and followed by notes and extracts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 3b.
• On spine: Label reading "Tuḥfat al-abrār" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in a variety of scripts in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Some rubrication; catchwords on the verso of most leaves. Some marginal notes. Inserts between front cover and first folio (title/author information), fol. 112-113. Some staining and a few leaves detached. In good condition.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي توحد بالملك فلا ند له في ملكوت سلطانه وتفرد بالعز فلا ضد له في جبروت كبريائه

Binding note

Brown full leather over pasted boards with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; damaged by insects and back cover missing. Blue paper doublure.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Smudged owner's stamps on fol. 1a, 3a. Note on fol. 444a dated 3 Shaʻbān 1247 H [7 January 1832].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), III, 404

Other format(s)

Published (Qum, Iran: 1989).

OCLC

795704824

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