Diʻāyat mubashshirāt Mīrzā ʻAbbās lil-Bahāʼ

Title:

Diʻāyat mubashshirāt Mīrzā ʻAbbās lil-Bahāʼ
دعاية مبشرات ميرزا عباس للبهاء،

Alternative title:

دعاية مبشرات للبهاء

Creator:

ʻAbduʼl-Bahá
عبد البها

Contributor:

Heyworth-Dunne, J. former owner
عبد البهاء
ʻAbduʼl-Bahá

Date:

[193-?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 962Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Accompanying materials: Several slips with brief notes (roughly one line on each slip) in Arabic and English on the contents and collation.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 111Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "دعاية مبشرات للبهاء| J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords, tightly bound ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Machine wove paper of at least two different types.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium to heavy line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written in 17-21 lines per page.Collation: i, 6 VI(72), V (82), 2 (84), IV (92), i ; chiefly senions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "سبحانك اللهم يا الهي قد نزلت من سماء عز احديتك مياه الوجود بوجودك ورحمانيتك ..."Title from inscription at head of incipit page (p.1).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a selection of Bahai tracts taken from the letters of ʻAbd al-Bahāʼ ʻAbbās Afandī (d.1921), etc.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Bahai Faith.

Extent:

92 leaves : paper ; 210 x 168 mm. bound to 220 x 175 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006832851

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