Miftāḥ al-Falāḥ.
مفتاح الفلاح.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund. PU

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Shiites.

Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800.

Religious life.

Religious life--Islam.

Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Shiites--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Partially effaced purple owner's stamp with the name Terbiet visible (f. 150v). Probably Tarbiyat Library in Tabriz, in service from 1898-1908 and run by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān (1877 or 1878-1940).

Sold on eBay July 2014; accessioned 2018.

Physical Description:

151 leaves : paper ; 170 x 100 (120 x 66) mm bound to 174 x 111 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1600 and 1631?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Work on Shīʻite daily religious customs and practices. This copy is very neatly written; some minor page repairs, a portion of the pages are stained, but still legible.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from introduction (f. 2r).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 12 long lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in small, neat naskh; pointed, unvocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red including some marginal headers. Textblock border-ruled in blue.

Binding: Black leather cover over thin pasteboard with faint blind-stamped frame. Endbands in blue and white and tan and white thread in a chevron pattern.

Origin: The copy is undated, but an owner's note places it before A.H. 1041 (1631) (Flyleaf 1r and 1v, in the front).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1959.

OCLC:

1083523314