Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—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]

Summary note

A compendium of religious duties for each day of the week. Additional prayers on fol. 248b-250b.

Notes

• Title from text on fol. 7a and spine.
• Dedicated to Shah Sulaymān I (fol. 8a).
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper and machine-made paper. Some leaves are blue. Keywords and overlining in red; a few marginal notes and corrections. Arabic texts are vocalized. Light staining. In excellent condition.
• Origin: 8 Shaʻbān 1266 H [19 June 1850] (fol. 248a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جعل يوم الجمعة لعباده المقربين عيدا وميز به بين عبيده فجعل منهم شقيا وسعيدا ...

Binding note

Contemporary limp golden-brown leather with blind-tooled central star and fillets.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), X, 75 (129).

OCLC

805951446

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