Details

Subject(s)

• Imamate—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Imams (Shiites)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Doctrines—16th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the imamate consisting of a muqaddimah, five bāb, and a khātimah; contents listed on fol. 3b-7b. Written in 937 H [1530 or 31] for Safavid Shah Tahmāsp [r. 1524-1576] (Āghā Buzurg, XXIII, 195).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Caption title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining and foxing, particularly at beginning and end of text block; paper repairs to first nine and last two leaves.
• Origin: Dated 1212 H [1797 or 8] (fol. 1b). On fol. 296a the scribe is stated to be Muḥammad, with the remainder of his name effaced.
• Incipit: الحمد لله ذي اللطف والاحسان والفضل والامتنان والعظمة والسلطان

Binding note

Full brown leather, with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants on front cover only; spine and edges repaired with modern leather.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's seal on fol. 1a.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXIII, 194-195

Other title(s)

• Manhaj al-fāḍilīn
• منهج الفاضلين

OCLC

796998625

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