Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah
[الصحيفة السجادية]

Other related names

• Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, -710?, attributed name
  زين العابدين علي بن الحسين،
• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661, attributed name
  علي بن ابي طالب،
• Ralph Foster Museum, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 94-18-1
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571453803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111633123
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/94_18_1.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

1107 A.H. (1696)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn with Persian interlinear translation and marginal notes; a leaf has been cut out between f. 25 and 26.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. [1]v)
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 155 x 95 (100 x 50) mm bound to 160 x 100 mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper.
   
• Two effaced owner's stamps (f. [1]r, [150]r).
   

Extent

1 online resource (ii, 150, ii, unfoliated leaves) :

Foliation

Leaves are unfoliated; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Illuminations.

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with inlay, blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; edges of cover and spine in red leather; black leather doublure.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines with alternating lines of Arabic and Persian; Arabic lines are 3 mm taller than Persian lines; catchwords every verso, lower left (often trimmed); marginalia.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and green with foliate marginal fill on first page-opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock is border-ruled in blue, red, gold, and blue with page-opening framed in narrow gold and black; lines are ruled in narrow gold and black

Script

Written in naskh in black ink (Arabic) and nastaʻlīq in red ink (Persian); pointed, with Arabic partially vocalized; marginalia in nastaʻlīq in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of the Ralph Foster Museum in 1994.
   

Subjects topical

• Shīʻah--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 17th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Effaced stamp
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Foliate marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Foliate marginal fill
• fol. 150r — Effaced stamp