Collection of two Shiite texts, the first on legal punishments and the second a commentary on Sūrat al-Fātiḥah. Notes on fol. 1a-1b, 108b, and inner back cover.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Physical description: 19-20 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black by different hands on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; in text 2 Arabic quotations overlined in red. Some smudging and damp staining, particularly in text 2. Edges ragged; some gatherings loose.
Origin: Text 1 completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1123 H. [January 1712] (fol. 86b).
Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي شرع الديات والقصاص والحدود لرفع الفساد من بين العباد ونظام عالم الوجود
Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله الذي علمنا افتتاح الكلام بتحميده ونبأنا بانه رب العالمين ووصف نفسه بالرحمن الرحيم
2. fol. 87b-108a: Lubāb al-maʻānī / al-Amīr Fayz̤ Allāh ibn al-Amīr ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Ḥusaynī al-Tafrīshī. Commentary on Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, incomplete at end.
Provenance
On fol. 2a: Faint owner's stamps, and owner's note of Muḥammad Karīm Khān Zand dated Shīrāz, Muḥarram 1261 H. [!]; a note on fol. 1b points out the discrepancy. On fol. 2a are also birth records which have been partially rubbed out, although the date 1140 H. [1727 or 8] is visible. On fol. 98a, the date 137- is noted, while the date 1376 [solar Hijri?] appears on fol. 108a.
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