Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Customs and practices [Browse]
• Islamic law [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on essential religious practices, consisting of two mujallad; this ms. contains mujallad 1 on ṭahārat and namāz. Composed on the order of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār (fol. 2a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Caption title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in blue, gold, and red, with outer marginal red border. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining, particularly on fol. 1b-2a. In good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold and color; title in red on white ground set within gold lozenge. Text on fol. 1b-2a set within clouds on gold ground.
• Origin: 23 Ramaḍān 1234 H [16 JUly 1819], ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn marḥūm Ḥājjī Ghulām ʻAlī al-Barīrī [?] (fol. 124b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله .. اما بعد خادم شرع انور و چاکر ائمه اثنا عشر احمد بن محمد مهدى ... بعرض برادر ايمانى مىرساند که اين کتابى است مسمى بوسىلت النجاة مشتمل بر مساىل ضرورت و فروع مهمه

Binding note

Half leather with paper covers.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Smudged stamp, likely from a library or bookseller, on fol. 1a.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXV, 85 (461)

Other title(s)

• Kitāb-i Vasīlat al-najāt
• کتاب وسىلت النجاة
• Wasīlat al-najāh
• وسيلة النجاة

OCLC

809638468

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