Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 3 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the twelve Imams, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining, foxing, and smudging.
• Origin: 1240 H [1824 or 5] (fol. 252a).
• Incipit: حمد و ثناىئ که سبحان ملاء اعلى از اداي شمۀ از آن عاجز آىند شکر و سپاسى که معكفان صوامع بالا در گفتن آن تقصىر اعتراف نماىند

Binding note

Full brown leather.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, stamp of Kitābkhānah-i Ṣaḥḥāfī-i Khudāʾī (Librairie Khodai) dated 1310 H [1892 or 3]. On fol. 252a, four owner's stamps of Muḥammad. On fol. 252b, owner's note by Sayyid Ṣadr al-Dīn Ṣafavī.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 89

OCLC

806292488

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