Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Imamate—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the imamate, translated into Persian by Ibrāhīm Astarābādī in the mid-16th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine label.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second folio. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid paper. European paper is blue or white and Arabic paper is tan. Catchwords. First and last folios pasted to covers. Some staining and smudging and a few paper repairs.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي من علينا بمعرفه و بمعرفة الانبياء و الائمه المعصومين ... اما بعد چنين گويد پر بي بضاعت

Binding note

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

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Note dated 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1122 H [11 February 1711] on fol. 2a.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), IV, 97

OCLC

802430608

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