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Or 15922

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032-004343476
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Or 15922
Title:
Jamiʻ-i ʻAbbasi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
129ff. Original foliation, f. 1-3 only.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1640
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
1640
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15922

Jamiʻ-i ʻAbbasi

Contents

1 copy of Jāmiʻ-i ʻAbbāsī by ʻĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621

Author: ʻĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 العاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين
Title: Jāmiʻ-i ʻAbbāsī
Title: جامع عباسي

A general treatise on Shī‘a jurisprudence. By Bahā’ al-Dīn ‘Āmilī (d. 1030/1621).

For references to this author see E. Kohlberg, ‘Bahā’-al-Dīn ‘Āmelī, Shaikh Moḥammad b. Hosayn Bahā’ī’, EIr III, p. 429-30. Other BL copies: Add. 23578 (Rieu I pp. 25-6).

Language(s): Persian with some Arabic
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Thin beige paper; light worm damage in the margins, and light moisture staining throughout.
Extent: 129ff. Original foliation, f. 1-3 only.
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 158 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 96 mm.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Neat naskhī; Arabic texts being vocalised. The copyist’s name is not entirely legible, but begins ‘Shaykh’ and includes two personal names, the second possibly being Yaḥyà.

Decoration

Red headings and overlining. No text frames.

Additions:

A few notes in margins; front and end flyleaves, owners’ scribbles; f. 129v, inscription, mainly deleted, giving the name of the work and the number of folios as 130.

Binding

Brown leather binding with blind-tooled border lines; spine with raised bands, in need of repair.

Seal(s):
Seal impression of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ḥusaynī (ff. 1r and 128v).

History

Origin: 1640-12-03 18 Sha‘bān 1050 AH; 3 December 1640 CE ; India?

Provenance and Acquisition

2002-10-17

Purchased at Bonhams and Brooks auction, 17 October 2002, Lot 85 (1 of 4 MSS).

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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