A collection of two texts, one the Arabic language and the other on prayer.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2b.
Physical description: Text 1: 10 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black. Arabic headings in red naskh and vocalized; catchwords. Extensive interlinear and marginal notations. Text 2: 16-18 lines per page; written in small shikastah in black. Headings in red; Arabic quotations in naskh, vocalized, and overlined in red. Catchwords. Entire ms. is on wove paper, very ragged on the edges where there is some paper loss in the outer margin. Some staining and smudging. Fol. 36a-36b blank. Notes on fol. 1a-2a, 37a, 44b. Inserts between fol. 32-33, 36-37, 38-39, 43-44.
Origin: Text 1 completed in Dār al-Khilāfah Ṭihrān on 5 Shaʻbān 1257 H. [22 September 1841] (fol. 35b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد همى گوىد ابو نصر فراهى کتاب من بخوان که علم خواهى
Incipit (text 2): در بىان [...] که در نماز واقع شود حىن نىت دانستن
Binding note
Limp brown leather with simple tooled geometric design; egdes ragged and partially eaten away due to water damage.
Language note
Persian and Arabic.
Contents
1. fol. 2b-35b: Risālat Niṣāb al-ṣibyān / min taṣānīf Abū Naṣr Farāhī. A text for teaching Arabic to Persian speakers.
2. fol. 37b-44a: Faṣl dar tarjamah-i namāz. Extract on prayer.
References
Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 504
Other title(s)
Faṣl dar tarjamah-i namāz.
فصل در ترجمه نماز.
OCLC
746352117
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