Descriptive Information

Title

الزهرة البارقة لمعرفة احوال المجاز والحقيقة.

Transliterated Title

al-Zahrah al-bāriqah li-maʻrifat aḥwāl al-majāz wa-al-ḥaqīqah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 71

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x633f363z

Publisher

[between 1800 and 1840]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1800-1840

Format

Manuscript

Extent

133 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (146 x 84) mm bound to 222 x 162 mm

Provenance

Owner's stamps on leaves 1a, 1b. On leaf 1a, note dated 1256 H [1840 or 1841].

References

Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1605

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XII, 72-73 (no. 506)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from leaf 1b, line 9.

Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Some of the paper is dyed blue or orange-yellow. Rubrication and catchwords. Leaves 130b-133b are blank. Some staining; edges are roughly cut.

Origin: Likely 19th century, before 1840.

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي تنزهت حقيقته عن مجازية العقول القادسة

Binding Note

Half leather with paper covers; back cover detached.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction

Shīʻah

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

142

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cd71b94d-a575-4cbd-8112-704b3b10eacf/manifest

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