[Nahj al-Balāghah].
[نهج البلاغة].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016.

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, donor.

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661, associated name.

Ibn Ḥusayn, Aḥmad ʻAlī Khaṭīb, scribe.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

علي بن ابي طالب، له، نحو 600-661., associated name.

ابن حسين، احمد علي خطيب.

Standardized Title:

Nahj al-balāghah. Selections

نهج البلاغة. Selections http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015224980

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661.

Hadith.

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661--Hadith.

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Hadith (Shiites)--Early works to 1800.

Hadith (Shiites).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Mayer Sulzberger (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown).

Physical Description:

488 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 240 x 140 (157 x 80) mm bound to 245 x 143 mm

Production:

A.H. 1069 (1659)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

A collection of the sayings of the Imam ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Three sections: 1) Sermons and sayings 2) writings and epistles 3) wise sayings and admonitions. Accompanied by copious marginal and interlinear notes. Closes with a metrical prayer by ʻAlī.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from introduction (f. 3v).

Foliation: Paper, iii + 448 + iii; 1-40, [i], 41-220, [i], 221-446; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Diagonal catchwords in black or red ink on versos, lower left corner.

Layout: Written in 12 lines per page in red and black ink with marginalia in black ink; main text border-ruled in black and blue ink (frames gilt and colored); main text area has a gilt wash.

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

Decoration: Rubrications in red. Text is border-ruled in green, blue, gold which sometimes make incisions into the paper.

Binding: Full red leather with blind-tooled boards with frame and central star pattern of intersecting lines; marbled endpapers; remains of printed paper label affixed to upper board; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Lower portion of spine cracked.

Origin: Copied by Aḥmad ʻAlī Khaṭīb ibn Ḥusayn al-Khaṭīb al-Ḥusaynī in the year A.H. 1069 from a copy dated A.H. 494 and another copy dated A.H. 729 (f. 444v).

Condition: Title leaf is defective; a few pages of text are missing. Dampstaining throughout volume (occasionally severe, with damage to text) at inner, head and tail margins; occasional dampstaining at outer margin; some catchwords smudged; some leaves torn at inner and/or lower edges of frame (a few mended); a few leaves mended at inner or outer margin; a few leaves detached from spine. Title page and a few pages of text missing. Text area cropped from original leaves and mounted within blank paper frames which were subsequently mended at head and outer margins (f. 446-447).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 140

OCLC:

276879204