Item Summary

Treatise on ritual prayer.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة شريفة جعفرية.
Transliterated Title
Risālah sharīfah Jaʻfarīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1288
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920g0464
Publisher
[1544]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1544
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 208 x 123 (115 x 62) mm bound to 208 x 125 mm
Provenance
Owner's stamp of Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Rājī on leaves 1b, 7a.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 391
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 574 (1: no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Caption title from leaf 1b.
Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Some staining.
Origin: Original text, 10 Jumādá II 917 H [4 September 1511] in Mashhad (leaves 71b-72a); this copy, 29 Ramaḍān 951 H [14 December 1544] (leaf 72a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الولي الحميد المبدئ المعيد ... وبعد فان التماس
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; back cover detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Salat—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
85

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f1f7a44-d70e-4cb9-8215-3eb4631eb341/manifest