Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb-i aqdas.
[کتاب اقدس]

Authors

• Baháʼuʼlláh, 1817-1892
  بهاء الله،
• Baháʼuʼlláh, 1817-1892
  بهاء الله،

Other related names

• Bassett, James, 1834-1906, former owner

Call number

X893.7 B11
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15277075
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1232107932
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X893_7_B11.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15277075

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with interlinear Persian translation

Origin

Date

between 1874? and 1877?

Summary

Nearly complete copy of the book of Bahāʼ Allah with interlinear Persian translation; copy is missing the final line.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 124, ii leaves : 178 x 110 (115 x 78) mm, bound to 183 x 120 x 22 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Green and black marbled paper sides over cardboard; red spine.

Layout

Written in 16 long lines; 8 Arabic, 8 Persian translation.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink and nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Rev. James Bassett, given to him in Tehran in 1877 (note in ink, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Bahai Faith
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Kitāb-i aqdas].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in English in ink.