Tuḥfat al-salāt - Persian manuscript
Summary
Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer.
Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from fol. 1b.
Name of scribe not indicated.
Probably written in Iran.
Paper; thick, cream-color laid paper with vertical chain lines; no visible watermarks; small colored unwan on 1b; black ink with rubrication; text is enclosed in a single thin blue line; dampstaining to upper portion with no loss of text, however the unwan has been damaged and the ink smeared; black ink with rubrication; few notes and corrections in margins; catchwords on rectos.
Nastaʼliq; 13 lines in written area 10 x 6.3 cm.
Fol. 1b-168a.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 43.
Contemporary dark brown leather binding with embossed medallions front and back.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Incipit: احمدك اللهم وانت المحمود على لسان حبيبك محمد التحيات ...
Explicit/Colophon: اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وبارك وسلم عليه ...
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