Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Doctrines—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the principles of religion.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Caption title from fol. 1b.
• On spine: Label reading "Falak al-mashḥūn" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second folio; record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations vocalized and overlined in red. Extensive water damage has caused ink to spread on many leaves, but text is still very legible.
• Origin: Text completed 8 Rabīʻ I 1244 H [18 September 1828]; this copy dated 1258 H [1842 or 3] by Najaf ʻAlī al-Anjadānī (fol. 91b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الواجب الوجود بالذات وصاحب الصفات سيما التي هي عين الذات والواحد من جميع الجهات والعادل في الافعال سيما ايجاد الممكنات

Binding note

Limp black leather, water-damaged.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Several owner's stamps of ʻAlī Akbar on fol. 1b, 91b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XVI, 312 (no. 1426)

Other title(s)

• Kitāb-i Falak al-mashḥūn
• کتاب فلک المشحون
• فلک مشحون
• رساله فلک مشحون

Title given in text on fol. 1b

• Falak-i mashḥūn

Title given in colophon

• Risālah-i Falak-i mashḥūn

OCLC

805164016

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