CAJS Rar Ms 140 Nahj al-Balāghah. / [نهج البلاغة]
Title
Nahj al-Balāghah.[نهج البلاغة]
Authors
- Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016
شريف الرضي، محمد بن الحسين،
Other related names
- Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, donor
- ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661, associated name
علي بن ابي طالب، - Ibn Ḥusayn, Aḥmad ʻAlī Khaṭīb, scribe
ابن حسين، احمد علي خطيب. - Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner
Call number
CAJS Rar Ms 140(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9944235563503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276879204
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
ArabicOrigin
Copied by Aḥmad ʻAlī Khaṭīb ibn Ḥusayn al-Khaṭīb al-Ḥusaynī in the year A.H. 1069 from a copy dated A.H. 494 and another copy dated A.H. 729 (f. 444v).
- Date
- A.H. 1069 (1659)
Summary
A collection of the sayings of the Imam ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Three sections: 1) Sermons and sayings 2) writings and epistles 3) wise sayings and admonitions. Accompanied by copious marginal and interlinear notes. Closes with a metrical prayer by ʻAlī.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 3v).
- Condition: Title leaf is defective; a few pages of text are missing. Dampstaining throughout volume (occasionally severe, with damage to text) at inner, head and tail margins; occasional dampstaining at outer margin; some catchwords smudged; some leaves torn at inner and/or lower edges of frame (a few mended); a few leaves mended at inner or outer margin; a few leaves detached from spine. Title page and a few pages of text missing. Text area cropped from original leaves and mounted within blank paper frames which were subsequently mended at head and outer margins (f. 446-447).
Extent
488 leaves : 240 x 140 (157 x 80) mm bound to 245 x 143 mmFoliation
Paper, iii + 448 + iii; 1-40, [i], 41-220, [i], 221-446; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Diagonal catchwords in black or red ink on versos, lower left corner.Support
PaperBinding
Full red leather with blind-tooled boards with frame and central star pattern of intersecting lines; marbled endpapers; remains of printed paper label affixed to upper board; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Lower portion of spine cracked.Layout
Decoration
Rubrications in red. Text is border-ruled in green, blue, gold which sometimes make incisions into the paper.
Script
Provenance
- Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Mayer Sulzberger (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown).
Subjects topical
- ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,--Caliph,--approximately 600-661--Hadith
- ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,--Caliph,--approximately 600-661
- Hadith (Shiites)--Early works to 1800
- Hadith
- Hadith (Shiites)
Genres
- Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Early works
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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