Item Summary

Volume 2 of a biography of the fourteen Infallibles. This volume contains bāb 5-14.

Descriptive Information

Title
جلال العيون / محمد باقر المجلي.
Transliterated Title
Jalāl [sic] al-ʻuyūn / Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 459L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczg64v044k
Language
Persian
Date Created
1731
Extent
219 leaves : paper ; 268 x 167 (215 x 115) mm bound to 272 x 166 mm.
Provenance
Signature (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 459
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 218a).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "5 MR 459".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 219 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue and red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in very good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1143 by Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī (fol. 218a).
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces. Color-tooled decorative edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
450

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7cc3423b-6623-4e37-b215-c60fc58c1a9f/manifest