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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—Persian [Browse]
• Breastfeeding (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Kinship (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Marriage (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1559 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]
• Dictionaries [Browse]

Contains

• Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. Ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd va al-nikāḥ. [Browse]
• مجلسي، محمد باقر بن محمد تقي، 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. صيغ العقود و النكاح. [Browse]
• Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. Ikhtiyārāt al-ayyām. [Browse]
• مجلسي، محمد باقر بن محمد تقي، 1627 or 1628-approximately 1699. اختيارات الايام. [Browse]
• Majlisī al-Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Taqī. al-Risālah al-riz̤āʻīyah. [Browse]
• مجلسى الاصفهانى، محمد تقى. الرساله الرضاعية. [Browse]
• Sayyid Muḥammad. Treatise on the principles of religion. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Shiite texts and poetry.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Spine title.
• Physical description: 11-12 lines per page; written in shikastah and naskh scripts in black on glazed, laid European paper. Fol. 155-162 on blue paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 40b, 63b-65a, 137b-138a, 160b-161a blank. Some staining and smudging; in fair condition.
• Origin: Text 4-6, 1242 H [1826 or 7] (fol. 74a, 107a, 137a). Text 8, 1240 H [1824 or 5] (fol. 160a).
• Incipit: [Arabic-Persian dictionary] افتتاح طلب فتح نمودن -- [صيغ العقود و النکاح] الحمد لله الذي احل النكاح وحرم الزنا والسفاح وتوعد عليه -- [اختيارات الايام] الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعد چنين گويد احقر عباد الله الغنى محمد باقر بن محمد تقى عفى الله عن جرايمهما که اين رساله ايست در بيان آنچه از احاديث معتبر اهل بيت ... معلوم ميشود -- [الرساله الرضاعية] الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد چنين گويد ... محمد تقي بن مجلسي الاصفهاني ، كه چون درين عصر افراط و تفريط بسيار در امر رضاع واقع شده بود -- [Treatise on the principles] الحمد لله ... بدان ايمکلف که اصول دين واجب است بر هر عاقل و بالغ

Binding note

Contemporary limp brown leather.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Favāʼid].
• 2. fol. 1b-40a: [Arabic-Persian dictionary]. Short dictionary arranged alphabetically by the first letter and divided into bābs for each letter.
• 3. fol. 41a-63a: [Collection of Persian poetry]. Collection of poems mainly in praise of Muḥammad and ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Poets include ʻUrfī, Ḥājjī Sulaymān Ḥājjī, Mīrzā Ṭūfān, and others.
• 4. fol. 65b-74a: [Ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd va al-nikāḥ] / Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī. Treatise on formulas for legalizing marriage.
• 5. fol. 74b-107a: [Ikhtiyārāt al-ayyām] / Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī. Treatise on propitious moments or days on which to perform certain actions, in three faṣl and a khātimah; this appears to be the smaller of the Ikhtiyārāt by the author.
• 6. fol. 107b-137a: [al-Risālah al-riz̤āʻīyah] / Muḥammad Taqī ibn Majlisī al-Iṣfahānī. Treatise on breastfeeding and kinship.
• 7. fol. 138b-139a: [Extract, partially cut off].
• 8. fol. 139b-160a: [Treatise on the principles of religion] / Āqā Sayyid Muḥammad. Treatise on uṣūl al-dīn from a Shiite perspective.
• 9. fol. 162a-162b: [Favāʼid].

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Other title(s)

• Arabic-Persian dictionary.
• Collection of Persian poetry.

OCLC

814246077

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