Details

Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The third part of a seven-part work on supplications; this volume contains supplications according to the month. Most of the text consists of supplications in Arabic with brief explanations in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from descriptive caption on fol. 1b.
• On spine: Label reading "Safīnat al-najāh" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq and naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic prayers vocalized. Extensive paper repairs and some staining; fol. 1-2 are replacements.
• Origin: 18 Rabīʻ II 1100 H [9 February 1689] (fol. 81b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله ... و بعد چون بتوفىق الهى بانجام رسىد مقال اول و دوم شروع شد در مقال سىم مقال سىم در ادعىه و اعمالى که در عرض سال مىباىد بعمل آىد

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets; indigo paper doublures.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XII, 199-200 (no. 1336)

OCLC

811060128

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