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Delhi Persian 306
- Record Id:
- 032-003380664
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100048921420.0x000004
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 306
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Shi’ism, 2 items (a-b)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 114 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1648
- End Date:
- 1648
- Date Range:
- 1648-1648
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Samar (?) al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb al-Shīrāzī
Khudā Bandah Sulṭān Muḥammad
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262 - Subjects:
- Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 306
Miscellaneous works on Shi’ism, 2 items (a-b)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Shi’ism. Volume not dated; item b dated (18 Rajab 1058/8 August 1648). Previously owned by Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Samar (?) al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb al-Shīrāzī. Neat scribal shikastah āmīz and naskh, by multiple hands. Extensive annotations in margins and folios preceding and following the main work. Not foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged, buckram spine intact, labelled. Folios mostly bound, occasionally loose; torn, cropped, wormholes, later repairs. Condition very fragile.Language(s): Arabic and Persian
1. ff. 1v-10vItem a.
Untitled collection of miscellaneous Twelver Shīʿī traditions or ḥadīs̲ relating to the imams along with other canonical and supererogatory supplications (aʿmāl), including Duʿāʾ ziyārat al-arbaʿīn, Duʿāʾ Kumayl, and prayers appropriate to particular months and days of the week.
The collection is defective, ending abruptly about halfway through Duʿāʾ Kumayl.
Not dated at end.
Neat miniscule scribal naskh and shikastah āmīz written in alternating oblique directions.
Folios severely damaged.
Author:2. ff. 12v-111rTitle: Minhāj al-karāmat fī maʿrifat al-imāmahTitle: منهاج الكرامة فى معرفة الامامةItem b.
Arabic treatise on the doctrines, rituals, and traditions of the Is̲nāʾ ʿAsharī Shīʿah by an unnamed author writing at the court of the Safavid ruler, Khudā Bandah Sulṭān Muḥammad(d. 1004/1595), praised in the introduction.
Dated colophon (f. 111r): completed at Muḥammadpūr, 18 Rajab 1058/8 August 1648.
Neat miniscule scribal naskh and shikastah āmīz.
Folios subsequent to the colophon (ff. 111v-114v) are filled with further annotations comprised of prayers and religious prescriptions, some copied from Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī, again in a neat miniscule scribal naskh and shikastah āmīz written in alternating oblique directions.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 114 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 162 × 87 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 18 Rajab 1058 (8 Aug 1648) AH ; India or Iran, MuhammadpurProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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