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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 Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

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 mm

Foliation

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

Paper

Binding

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

Written in 12 lines per page in red and black ink with marginalia in black ink; main text border-ruled in black and blue ink (frames gilt and colored); main text area has a gilt wash.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Text is border-ruled in green, blue, gold which sometimes make incisions into the paper.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

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

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Nahj al-Balāghah]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate