Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-junnat al-īmān al-bāqiyah
Contributors: Ismāʻīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Amīr al-Muʼminīn al-Manṣūr billāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, dedicatee; Muḥammad Hādī ibn Mīrzā ʻArab al-Shīrāzī, scribe; Mullā ʻAbbās Zīvarī, -1898, former owner; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1725
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Shīʻah; Customs and practices; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Miṣbāḥ al-Kafʻamī
Description: Copy of a treatise on Shiʻite rituals and customs. This copy has extensive marginal commentary that creates different shapes on three sides.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from title page (f.1r).

Layout: 25 lines per page, border-ruled, extensive marginalia.

Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome (red, blue, yellow) and gold floriated headpiece (f. 1v); suggestion of cloudbands on the first page opening (f. 1v-2); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in gold, black, blue; page-opening framed in gold. Some headings are set off in red with gold divider lines above and below.

Shelfmark: MS Or 122.

Origin: This copy was completed five years after the scribe returned from the pilgrimage to Mekka (Ḥajj), though no date is recorded (f. 361r).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Several owner's stamps and notes (Flyleaf 1r, in front; f. 1r, 361v).

Bound in dark red and black leather with gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and outer frame; gilt tooled design between the inner and outer frames. Pink paper pastedowns.

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