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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—16th century—Sources [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Persian commentary on the Qurʼān consisting of explanatory Shiʻite hadiths; from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah to Sūrat al-Anʻām.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second folio. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper bearing a variety of watermarks, including the trelune. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal corrections. Arabic in naskh and vocalized. A few folios dyed yellow. Light staining and smudging; edges are ragged and a few leaves are detached.
• Origin: Dated [1]185 H (fol. 375b).
• Incipit: حمد بىحد و شكر بلا عدم منعمى را سزد كه شقايق حقايق قرآنى را در حدايق صدور انسانى بشكفانيد

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; spine repaired. Yellow pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), IV, 100-101

Other title(s)

• Tafsīr-i Fārsī
• تفسىر فارسى
• Tafsīr-i Zavvārī
• تفسىر زوارى
• ترجمة الخواص

Title in Āghā Buzurg

• Tarjamat al-khawāṣṣ

OCLC

761081012

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