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

Title

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

Alternate identifiers

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

Publisher

Language

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

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

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

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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  URL

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• 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