Details

Subject(s)

• Imamate—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise proving the validity of the Shiite imamate, consisting of a muqaddimah, a qāʻidah, and a khātimah; followed by notes on Shiite doctrine on fol. 141b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, per Āghā Buzurg.
• Dedicated to Shāh ʻAbbās I [r. 1587-1629] (fol. 2a).
• On front cover: Label erroneously reading "Qāṭiʻ Burhān ..." in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on a variety of laid and machine-made papers. Rubrication and catchwords. Text area painted yellow or brown. Some staining and smudging. In good condition.
• Origin: 1262 H [1846] (fol. 141a).
• Incipit: كس نامۀ انوار جلى ننويسد تا بر سر او هو العلى ننويسد كى دست قضا خامه نهد بر نامه تا ناد على سينجلى ننويسد طليعۀ صباح ستايش بي الآيش پر تو انگيز فضاى دلکشاي احدي يکتا و واحدى بى همتاست

Binding note

Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants, originally painted green, and gold-painted fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On inner front cover, notes dated 15 Jumādá I 1322 H [1904], 10 Rabīʻ I 1324 H [1906], and 28 Rajab 1310 H [1893]. On fol. 1b, stamp of ʻAbd al-ʻĀbid. On fol. 141a, two identical smudged stamps.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), III, 443-4

OCLC

819507073

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