Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1366

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29482

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1366

Title:

Account of the martyrdom of Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī

Date:

1690-1691

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 315 leaves : paper ; 206 x 141 (150 x 80-87) mm. bound to 215 x 145 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords. First few and last few leaves are ragged and have repairs, mainly marginal. Extensive damp staining. In fair condition.
Origin: al-Juzʼ al-awwal, 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1011 H [likely 1101 = 19 April 1690], by al-Sayyid Ḥaydar ibn al-Sayyid Amīr Khān al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī (fol. 137a). al-Juzʼ al-thānī, Muḥarram 1103 H [September-October 1691], by the same scribe.
Stamp of Muḥammad al-Mūsawī dated 1195 H [1781] on fol. 137b; also on other pages throughout ms.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680

Death and burial of a person

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Muslim martyrs

Biographies

Imams (Shiites)

Battle of Karbalāʼ (Karbalāʼ, Iraq : 680)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9971536533506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University