Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Biography [Browse]
• Muslim martyrs—Biography [Browse]
• Imams (Shiites)—Biography [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Text on the deaths of Muḥammad, Fāṭimah, and the twelve Shiite Imams; consisting of a muqaddimah and fourteen ātishkadah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 3a.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Insert between fol. 30-31. Some staining, foxing, and smudging; first leaf repaired. Text block has been trimmed. Notes on fol. ia, 1a. In good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed in Rabīʻ I 1260 H [March-April 1844] (fol. 131b).
• Incipit: نحمدك اللهم يا من خصنا بمصيبته من بكا عليه السموات ومكانها والجبال وخزائنها والارض وقيعانها

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner pieces, and fillets; blue paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XV, 182

OCLC

797946239

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