Details

Subject(s)

• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Tr

• Khvānsārī, Muḥammad ibn Āqā Ḥusayn, -1701? [Browse]

Related name

• خوانسارى، محمد بن آقا حسىن، d. 1701? [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Summary note

A Persian translation of Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Miftāḥ al-falāḥ, a text explaining daily Shiʻite religious practices, by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Khvānsārī and dedicated to Safavid Shāh Ṣafī II [r. 1666-1694]. Translator's introduction is on fol. 1b-6b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Āghā Buzurg.
• On spine: Label reading "Miftāḥ al-falāḥ" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh-nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic prayers written in naskh, vocalized, and accompanied by interlinear Persian translation in red. Light staining and a few marginal paper repairs; first leaf ragged and margins of fol. 1b-2a somewhat smudged. Text block is detached from binding. In good condition.
• Decoration: Small illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color on fol. 1b; basmalah in gold. Margins of fol. 1b-2a filled with gold and color floral design. Text framed in blue and gold with outer marginal red border.
• Origin: On fol. 124 a, collation statement dated 10 Jumādá II 1087 H [20 August 1676], and audition statement dated 1 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1087 H [5 January 1677].
• Incipit (fol. 6b): سپاس مر خداى را که دلالت کرد مارا بر جاده نجات و هداىت فرمود مارا بسوى آنچه واجب مىکرد

Binding note

Loose in brown leather binding with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and fillets; orange-brown leather doublures.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), IV, 138 (no. 665)

OCLC

797175839

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