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Summary of Contents: الصحيفة الكاملة. A collection of prayers and doxologies ascribed to the Fourth Imam of the
Shi'a, 'Ali ibnu'l-Husayn commonly called Zaynu'l-'Abidin. See Brockelmann,
vol. 1, p. 44; and Ahlwardt's Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. III, pp. 376-377
Nos. 3769-70, where the book is fully described. This MS, belonged to my former colleague Shaykh Hasan of Tabriz, who gave
it to me when he left Cambridge in June, 1911. It contains 194 ff. of 13'5 x 7'5 C.
and 11 l., is written in an excellent modern Persian naskh, fully pointed, with rubrications, and was transcribed by Muḥammad Amin of Na'in, who completed it
on 11 Sha'bán, 1087/20 October, 1676. In the second colophon on f. 193 the
alternative title of Zubiru Ali Muhammad wa-Injilu Ahli l-Bayt is given. The
text is divided into two parts at f. 176. The first part ends, like the Berlin MS.
No. 3769, with the prayer for the dispersal of sorrows, at the end of which is
written: The succeeding portion is entitled (f. 176'): الصحيفة وكان من تسبيحه اعنى زين العابدين عليه السلام تمت الصحيفة الشريفة الكاملة بعون الله وتوفيقه ومنا الحق ببعض نسخ نقل من حط الشيخ الشهيد رحمه الله صح Opposite this in the margin, also written in red, are the words: العين في مشهد الحسين
نور العين في

Author: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, d. 710? علي بن الحسين زين العابدين

Title: al-Ṣaḥīfah al-kāmilah

Title: Zubūr āl Muḥammad wa-injīl ahl al-bayt

Title: الصحيفة الكاملة

Title: زبور آل محمد وانجيل اهل البيت

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 194

Dimensions: 13.5 × 7.5 cm.

Layout

11 lines

Hand(s)

Excellent modern Persian naskh, fully pointed, with rubrications.

History

Origin: 1087 AH; 1676 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS belonged to my former colleague Shaykh Hasan of Tabriz, who gave it to me when he left Cambridge in June, 1911.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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