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Bāb-i haftum dar imāmat

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Summary of Shīʻah doctrine and the Imamate.

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Persian.

Title from fol. 1b, and comparison with a lithograph of a complete copy of Tuḥfah-ʹi Is̲nā ʻAsharīyah

Name of scribe not indicated.

Probably written in India.

Paper; thick tan-color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text is enclosed in a border of two thin lines of red ink; black ink with interlinear translations in red ink; catchwords on rectos

Nastaʻliq (Persian text); naskh (Arabic text); 15-16 lines in written area 14.5 x 7.5 cm.

Fol. 1b-223b.

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 9.

European quarter leather binding; red leather spine and corners with gold edging; black buckram.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Incipit: باب هفتم در امامت ...

Explicit/Colophon: تمام شد نسخه شريفه باب هفتم ... نواب قطب الدوله روز دشنبة تاريخ نهم جمادى الاول.

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01/01/1840
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