كتاب [ال]آيات الباهرة في مدح الائمة الطاهرة.

Kitāb [al-]Āyāt al-bāhirah fī madḥ al-aʼimmah al-ṭāhirah ... [etc.].

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Persian
  • Arabic
Published/​Created
Tabrīz, [1855-1877]
Description
205 leaves : paper ; 215 x 170 (155-160 x 96-124) mm. bound to 215 x 173 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Contains
Summary note
Collection of two Persian texts: a treatise explaining Qurʼānic verses concerning the Prophet and the Imams preceeded by an index, and a treatise on the meaning of the shahādah.
Notes
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Physical description: Persian text in nastaʻliq; Arabic quotations in naskh. Fol. 1-175, 205 on modern paper; fol. 176-204 on blue glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Insert between fol. 165-166. Fol. 16b, 71 (lacuna in text), 166b-167b, 168b-176a, 204-205 blank.
  • Origin: Text 2 completed 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1294 H. [18 November 1877] by Mahdī ibn Muḥammad (fol. 166a); text 4 completed in Dār al-Salṭanah Tabrīz on 4 Rabīʻ al-Mawlūd [i.e. al-Awwal] 1272 H. [14 November 1855] by the same copyist (fol. 203b).
Binding note
Limp black leather, spine partially broken, with purple pastedowns.
Language note
Persian.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1b-16a: Fihrist [al-]Āyāt al-bāhirah fī madḥ al-aʼimmah al-ṭāhirah. Index of Qurʼānic verses for text 2.
  • 2. fol. 17b-166a: Kitāb [al-]Āyāt al-bāhirah fī madḥ al-aʼimmah al-ṭāhirah. Explanation of Qurʼānic verses concerning the Prophet and the Imams; in Persian with Arabic and Persian poetry quotations.
  • 3. fol. 168a: [Extract].
  • 4. fol. 176b-203b: Kitāb Asrār al-shahādah / Sayyid Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Jaʻfar Mūsavī.
Provenance
Owner's note on fol. 17a dated 7 Jumādá II 1351 H. [8 October 1932]; on fol. 203b, dated 1351 H.
References
  • Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʼi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī, no. 7446
  • Āghā Buzurg, Dharīʻah (1936), II, 47
Other title(s)
  • Qurʼan. Selections
  • قرآن.
OCLC
726852559
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