Details

Subject(s)

• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Anonymous collection of stories about the pre-Islamic prophets; consists of at least ten majālis; incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title based on front cover, given as "33 Majalis-a-Abrar" in Western script.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Extensive damp staining and some mildew; much of text on fol. 1-4 illegible due to water damage. There appear to be several lacunae among the first few folios. First folio torn in half.
• Incipit (majlis 2, fol. 15b): الحمد لله ... سپاس بى قىاس مر آن خداوندىرا ... که پادشاه شىر ده هزار عالم است و آفرىننده بنى و بنات آدم است

Binding note

Brown paper over boards.

Language note

Persian.

Other title(s)

قصة الانبياء

Title from note on fol. 1a

• Qiṣṣat al-anbiyāʾ

OCLC

820153578

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