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

Title

Hāz̲ā kitāb Sirāj al-munīr. ʻAqāyid al-nisā.
هذا کتاب سراج المنير. عقايد النسا

Authors

• Muḥammad al-Sharīf ibn Muḥammad, 1593-
  محمد الشريف بن محمد،
• Khvānsārī, Jamāl al-Dīn, -1713?
  خوانسارى، جمال الدين،

Other related names

• Yohannan, Abraham, 1853-1925, former owner
• Yohannan, Abraham, 1853-1925, donor

Call number

X892.88 M892
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15003445
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199372739
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_88_M892.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15003445

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1825 and 1830?

Summary

Three works bound together and copied in different hands. The first is a collection of moral anecdotes; the second is a short work on Islamic practice regarding women also known as Kuls̲ūm nanah (or Kuls̲ūmʹnanah); it contains an introduction, 15 chapters and a conclusion; the third is an unidentified leaf summarizing rules regarding men and women.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

148 leaves : 175 x 108 (130-155 x 70-75) mm, bound to 175 x 110 x 25 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in plain brown leather.

Layout

First work written in 10 long lines; second work in 20 long lines; third work in 14 long lines.

Decoration

First page border-ruled in red; some rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Professor A. Yohannan, Nov. 18, 1913 (note in pencil, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by Abraham Yohannan (note in pencil, f. 1r; library donation plate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
• Women (Islamic law)--Early works to 1800
• Muslim women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Compilation manuscripts
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Hāz̲ā kitāb Sirāj al-munīr.
• fol. 133v — ʻAqāyid al-nisā.
• fol. 147r — [unidentified leaf]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library donor plate