Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tarjumah-ʼi khuṭab-i arbaʻīn.
ترجمۀ خطب اربعین

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 28
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528593
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex28.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian with source-text in Arabic; some glosses and notes in Chinese

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1899?

Place

China?

Summary

Copy of a translation and commentary of 40 ḥadīth, interspersed with verses by various writers. This copy is extremely fragile. The binding has completely fallen apart, except for one small section. Most of the leaves have been placed individually in mylar sleeves. The cover boards are also in mylar sleeves, and the spine is missing.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

174 leaves, chiefly unbound : 286 x 200 (210 x 150) mm bound to 290 x 210 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Work is almost entirely disbound. Covers are plain red-brown leather over pasteboard. Spine is missing.

Layout

15 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; headers and source-text in larger script.

Script

Written in Chinese style naskh in black ink; pointed, Arabic vocalized.

Subjects topical

• Hadith--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
• Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Early works to 1800
• Hadith

Genres

• Early works
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Tarjumah-ʼi khuṭab-i arbaʻīn

Decorations

• Insert recto — Leaf
• Insert verso — Leaf