Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 720

Metadata

DS ID:

DS13423

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 720

Title:

Lawāmiʻ al-anwār fī maʻrifat [al]-aʼimmah al-aṭhār ... [etc.

Author:

Zavvārī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan, active 16th century / زوارى، على بن حسن، active 16th century

ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan Zavvārī WIKIDATA

Date:

1669-1670?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian and Arabic

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 180 leaves : paper ; 204 x 147 (152 x 88-93) mm. bound to 205 x 156 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 127a.
On spine: Label reading "Fiqh al-Riḍā ʻalayhi al-salām" in Arabic script, upside-down.
Physical description: 17-19 lines per page; Arabic in naskh and Persian in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 1 in two columns, Arabic on right and Persian on left, with sūrah headings in red. Text 2 has rubrication and catchwords; text 3 has catchwords and spaces left for rubrication. Extensive marginal notes. Notes on fol. 12b, 41a, 125a. Text 2 bound incorrectly...
Origin: Text 1 completed 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 108[0?] H [30 April 1670?] (fol. 12a). Text 2 completed on a Sunday in Jumādá I 1080 H [September-October 1669] by Kiyā-Naẓar ibn Kiyā-Ḥaqqū Yazdī [...] Balāghī (fol. 124b).
Birth dates noted on fol. 41a, 1101 H [1689 or 90] and 1112 H [1700 or 1701].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts, Persian

ʻAlī al-Riḍā ibn Mūsá, -818 or 819

Hadith (Shiites)

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Imams (Shiites)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9968948793506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University