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Subject(s)

• Astrology [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries [Browse]
• Shiites [Browse]
• Shīrāz (Iran)—History [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two Persian texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text on fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; on glazed, laid European paper. Text 1 in neat naskh; text 2 in shikastah and framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords; charts on fol. 10a-23a. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Text 1 completed 22 Muḥarram 1268 H [17 November 1851] (fol. 8a).
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله ... و بعد اين رساله مشتمل است بر ذکر و بىان شمه از فضاىل و مناقب معصومىن و اولائيکه مدفون در بلده شىراز از جنت طراز اند
• Incipit (text 2): طىره منقولة عن جعفر الصادق و تسمى بفال الطىر

Binding note

Full brown leather with painted central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-8a: Z̲ikr va bayān-i shammah az faz̤āyil va manāqib-i maʻṣūmīn. Selections from the Shīrāznāmah of Zarkūb Shīrāzī concerning religious figures buried in Shīrāz.
• 2. fol. 9b-23a: Hāz̲ā Fāl al-ṭayr manqūl ʻan Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. On divination and astrology; illustrated with charts.

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Shuʻāʻ on fol. 1a, 9a, accompanied by the number 23.

Other title(s)

• Fāl al-ṭayr.
• فال الطير.

OCLC

806485944

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