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Title

Miftāḥ al-Falāḥ.
مفتاح الفلاح

Authors

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
  عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين،
• Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1959
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962496313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523314

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1631?

Summary

Work on Shīʻite daily religious customs and practices. This copy is very neatly written; some minor page repairs, a portion of the pages are stained, but still legible.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).
   

Extent

151 leaves : 170 x 100 (120 x 66) mm bound to 174 x 111 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Black leather cover over thin pasteboard with faint blind-stamped frame. Endbands in blue and white and tan and white thread in a chevron pattern.

Layout

12 long lines; border-ruled.

Script

Written in small, neat naskh; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Partially effaced purple owner's stamp with the name Terbiet visible (f. 150v). Probably Tarbiyat Library in Tabriz, in service from 1898-1908 and run by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān (1877 or 1878-1940‏).
   
• Sold on eBay July 2014; accessioned 2018.
   

Subjects topical

• Religious life--Shīʻah--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800
• Shiites--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Miftāḥ al-Falāḥ