Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 93Bq

Metadata

DS ID:

DS17495

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 93Bq

Title:

Sharḥ Nahj al-balāghah / شرح نهج البلاغة

Sharh Nahj al-Balagha

Author:

Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Hibat Allāh, 1191-1257 or 1258

Izz al-Din ibn Hibatullah ibn Abi l-Hadid WIKIDATA

Date:

1500-1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Fols. 529; 27.8 x 16.6 cm.; written surface 19.5 x 10 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red; with illumination.
Volumes VII-XIII of a historical commentary on Nahj al-balāghah, a collection of the speeches, letters and maxims of the Caliph ʻAlī.
Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. الحمد لله الواحد العدل. الاصل فلما مهد ارضه وانفذ امره اختار آدم.
Colophon: تم الجزء الثالث عشر من شرح نهج البلاغة والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على نبىه محمد واله وصحبه. تم
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; ruled marginal lines in gold and color. Folios 1, 2 (a), 75, 162, 245, 246 (a), 313, 374, 447 and 448 (a) are elaborately decorated and illuminated in gold and color. On back of first page and on preceding folio are two autographs of owners, Sūrah I of the Qurʼān and a statement about the author and his works. MS in good condition but worm-eaten...
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 407.
Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1330.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sixteenth century

Hadith (Shiites)

Commentaries

Early works

Shīʻah--Doctrines

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661

Hadith

Nahj al-balāghah (Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963569053506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University