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Delhi Persian 14

Record Id:
032-004343585
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Delhi Persian 14
Title:
1 copy of Ās̲ār al-akhyār by ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d. 874
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
425 ff
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1667
End Date:
1667
Date Range:
1667
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Shah Ṭahmāsp, 1514-1576,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061219146,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78638870
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn (Shāh added above) Nūr Allāh al-Ḥusaynī Ṣadr-i Jahān
al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī
ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d 0874,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007861779X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96972070
ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d 0874,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007861779X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96972070
Subjects:
Koran--Hermeneutics
Tafsir
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 14

Contents

1 copy of Ās̲ār al-akhyār by ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d. 874

Author: ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī, d. 874 Imam Hasan al-‘Askarī عسكري، الحسن بن علي
Translator: ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan Zavārī, علی بن حسن زواری
Title: Ās̲ār al-akhyār
Title: آثار الاخىار

A neatly and clearly written copy of a Persian translation apparently by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan Zavārī, علی بن حسن زواری who worked at least partly for Shāh Ṭahmāsp I (930-84/1524-76) of the Arabic commentary ascribed to the eleventh Imām Ḥasan al-ʻAskarī on Sūrahs 1 and 2•1-108, 154-73, 194-206, and most of verse 282

A leaf is missing between ff 1 andand another between ff 423 and 424

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 425 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 23.5 × 14 in.

Hand(s)

Good regular naskhī of rather archaistic appearance

Copyist: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn (Shāh added above) Nūr Allāh al-Ḥusaynī Ṣadr-i Jahān;

Decoration

Additions:

Qurʼānic text and headings in red, except at the beginning where overlining prevails

Binding

20th century European

Seal(s):

al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (the copyist?)

History

Origin: India; 9 Jum I 1078 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Arberry, Levy and Storey: Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 3. (Unpublished)

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