Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's correspondence to his sons and officials, dated 1075 H.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 1a.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; leaves 32-38 written on a diagonal. Some insect damage and staining.
• Origin: 25 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1246 H [7 May 1831] (leaf 39a).
• Incipit: بعد حمد رب العالمىن و نعت خاتم المرسلىن که تبىن آن ... [؟] امکان هىچ افرىده نىست

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 50

Other title(s)

• Ruqʻāt-i ʻĀlamgīrī
• رقعات عالمگىرى

OCLC

851746054

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