روضة الصفا.

Rawz̤at al-ṣafā.

Author
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/​Created
[1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1051 [February 1, 1642]
Description
214 leaves : paper ; 312 x 190 (215 x 115) mm bound to 312 x 191 mm.

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Summary note
Volume 3 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the twelve Imams, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from colophon (fol. 214a).
  • Title also on head of text block. Inscriptions on the folios before and after the text.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 214 + blank + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 21 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers only: coat-of-arms with a bird and roman-alphabet lettering "GiorMagnani" and "Al Masso"; text: three crescents, coat-of-arms with crozier) ; MS in good to fair condition, some staining and repairs.
  • Origin: According to colophon copy completed [1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1051 by Muḥammad Yūsuf ibn ʻAlīkhān ? (fol. 214a).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين حمد وثنايى مسبحان ملاء اعلى ازاداى شمه از ان عاجز آينه وشكر ...
  • Colophon: تم تسويد مجلد الثالث من كتاب روضه الصفا ... غرة شهر ذى قعده الحرام من سنه احدى وخمسين والف من هجرة خير البريه عليه واله الف الصلوه والتحيه على يدى العبد ... محمد يوسف بن ملا عليخان ده..ى؟ غفر الله ...
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled decorative edging. Multi-colored endbands.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
Seal impressions (fol. 1b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 467
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
858914289
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