Item Summary

Second volume of a popular history of Shiʻite martyrs.

Descriptive Information

Title
رياض الشهاده.
Transliterated Title
Riyāz̤ al-shahādah.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 458Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7p88cw15r
Language
Persian
Date Created
1846
Extent
293 leaves : paper ; 303 x 229 (225-235 x 155-160) mm
Provenance
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. 458
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Damage on lower cover shows re-use of written pages in a non-roman script.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 293 ; catchwords ; foliation skips from 64 to 70 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; quotes are fully vocalized ; MS in good condition, some folios mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed : 4 Rajab 1262 in Ḥaydarābād, by Mīr Ibrāhīm ʻAlī Khān Khurāsānī al-Mashhadī (fol. 293b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الحريم رب يسر وتمم بالخير وبهنستعين وعليه التوكل فى كل حين ... اما بعد پس چنين كو يد فقير حقير سرايا تقصير خادم طلبه علوم محمد حسن ابن المرحوم ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
592

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db6b8ed5-3980-43ec-ab82-9a5ae0cc2701/manifest