Details

Subject(s)

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

Tr

• Dahastānī, Ḥusayn ibn Asʻad [Browse]

Summary note

Translation into Persian by Ḥusayn ibn Asʻad al-Dahastānī of al-Tanūkhī's collection of stories illustrating deeds of salvation from difficult situations. This copy is incomplete at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Āghā Buzurg.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold; only about one-third of the illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b is still intact. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1 in poor condition: missing parts of the page and pasted to the inner front cover. Numerous paper repairs, particularly to beginning and end of ms., resulting in loss of text on a few pages. Fol. 2-61 almost completely detached; fol. 62-63 detached. Margins are damp stained and mildewed, but text area is in good condition.
• Incipit: حمد و ثناء قيومى را كه عجز عقول

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; repaired on edges and spine with black leather. Brown leather doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamps on fol. 9b, 246a, 249b. Owner's note dated 1806 (fol. 165a).

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), V, 50

Other title(s)

• Faraj baʻd az shiddat
• فرج بعد از شدت

OCLC

806466061

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