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Subject(s)

• Islamic literature—History and criticism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiite literature—History and criticism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiites—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of prominent Shiʻites from the rise of Islam to the beginning of the Safavid dynasty; missing the first few leaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 424a.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1-19, 424 have been reset on frames of glazed, laid European paper. Insert between fol. 189-190. Fol. 1 belongs after fol. 3. Numerous paper repairs, some marginal damp staining, ragged edges. Many loose gatherings; last leaf and flyleaves detached. Incomplete at beginning.
• Origin: Copy completed on 19 Rabīʻ I 1049 H [20 July 1639] (fol. 424a).

Binding note

Full green leather; brown leather spine and doublure with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants. Back cover missing.

Language note

Persian.

References

• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XIX, 370
• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 337

Other format(s)

Published (Tehran, 1365 [1986]).

Other title(s)

مجالس المؤمنىن در ذکر اغلب روات و علما و حکما و بزرگان از صوفيه و رجال اتم

Title from fol. 1a by a later hand

• Majālis al-muʼminīn dar z̲ikr-i aghlab-i ruvāt va ʻulamā va ḥukamā va buzurgān az ṣūfīyah va rijāl-i atamm

OCLC

795779197

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