al-Ṣaḥīfah al-kāmilah
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1702
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Shīʻah; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: A collection of prayers attributed to Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, the fourth Shiite Imam. The copy is written on somewhat pointed cloudbands; gold foliate page frames throughout.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 144a).

Layout: 13 long lines in cloudbands; border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold and double blue with the text on cloudbands throughout. Headpiece in blue and gold on the first opening with textblock frame of blue line designs (f. 1v). Page-opening frame of colored (blue and red) and gold leaves on first and last opening (f. 1v-2r, 241v-242r). Gold foliate page-opening frame on three sides throughout; the frame has been partially or fully trimmed on pages near the beginning. Rubrications in blue and red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 209.

Origin: Copy completed in 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 AH (f. 142r).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic with some Persian annotations.

Brown-black leather with gold-painted frame. Brown leather doublure with green painted frame of double rules.

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