Kitāb Fawāʼid al-mashāhid - Shūshtarī, Jaʻfar ibn al-Ḥusayn, -1885 or 1886.; Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, 1811 or 1812-1895 or 1896 ([Iran, 1893)
Collection of the author's sermons, dictated to his student Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ashraf al-Ṭālqānī, who arranged and edited them; first published in Tabrīz in 1312 H [1894 or 5] (Āghā Buzurg, XVI, 359).
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
On front cover: Label reading "303" in Arabic script.
Physical description: 14-21 lines per page; written in shikastah in black by two hands on machine-made paper. Arabic sections in naskh. Rubrication in violet and catchwords on fol. 127-289. Topics noted in margins. Fol. 125a-125b, 126b-127a blank; collation notes on fol. 126a. Change of hands for mujallad 2 on fol. 127b. Occasional staining and paper repairs; textblock partially detached from binding. In good condition.
Origin: First mujallad completed by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn in Ramaḍān 1310 H [March-April 1893]; the volume was checked against the original during Ramaḍān by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad (fol. 124b). Second mujallad copied by the author's student, Muḥammad [ibn ʻAlī Ashraf] al-Ṭālqānī (fol. 127b), then collated by Muḥammad Bāqir (fol. 289b).
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah
Keywords: Islamic sermons, Persian -- 19th century; Religious life -- Islam; Spiritual life -- Islam; Manuscripts, Persian -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Persian -- Iran -- 19th century