[Nahj al-Balāghah]; [نهج البلاغة]

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)

Name:

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

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1659

Description:

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.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

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

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms140.html

Subject:

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661; Hadith; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 Hadith; Hadith (Shiites) -- Early works to 1800; Hadith (Shiites)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic -- 17th century; Codices (bound manuscripts); Early works

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 140