Wadh.Minasian 189 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: Ibn Khātūn, the translator, was a student of Shaykh Bahāʾī and one of the scholars of his time. He has been gaining knowledge in Shaykh Bahāʾī's lessons for years. When he arrived at the court of Sultan Quṭb Shāhī (died 1035 Qamarī/1616), of the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty of India, he was commissioned to translate a book from Arabic to Persian, as were other scholars of his time. He therefore selected Shaykh Bahāʾī's Arbaʿīn for translation, a book containing 40 hadiths, and called it Tarjumah-'i Quṭb-i Shāhī upon completion.
Language(s): Persian
Hadith
Translator: Ibn Khātūn al-ʿĀmilī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, active 17th century ابن خاتون عاملی، محمد علی، ۱۱ق/
Title: Tarjumah-'i Quṭb-i Shāhī
Title: ترجمهٔ قطب شاهی
Title: Tarjumah-'i Arbaʿīn
Title: ترجمهٔ اربعین
Incipit: بسمله، ای از تو حدیث معرفت را تبیین / وی ترجمهٔ وصف تو تنزیل مبین…
Explicit: … از مخفیات عالم فلکی سزاوار آنست که تصدیق نمایی آنجماعت… و بیده مفتاح الابواب و هانا اختم الکلام حامد الله علی التوفیق للاتمام.
Colophon: تم فی یوم الاحد عشر آخر من شهر جمیدی الثانی علی ید اقل خلق الله محمد حسین دماوندی فی سنه اربع و سبعون بعد الالف من الهجره النبویه.
This is one of the oldest copies of Tarjumah-'i Quṭb-i Shāhī.
References
Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:
- FAW 175
Similar Copies in Other Libraries:
- MAJ 37/209
- NLI 3/147
- UTL 13/3267
Similar Copies listed in Other Catalogues:
- COM 4/2277
- FAP 3208
Printed editions:
- Tehran, 1387 Shamsī/2009
Physical Description
Support: Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness, one size; rubricated titles, rubricated line above Quranic verses and hadiths.
Extent: 222 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 28 × 19 cm.
Dimensions (written): 18 × 11 cm.
Condition
Some folio edges are mended.
Layout
20 lines per page
Hand(s)
Graceful Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular Damāvandī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn دماوندی، محمد حسین
Additions: Persian poetry and miscellaneous notes on the first and final folio. Square stamp on the last folio; likely to be of the scribe, but it is wiped out.
Binding
Pasteboard binding with yellow papers on sides, 20×29 cm, front + back cover, spine in brown leather
Condition
Front cover detached but existant; head band and stitching in disarray
History
Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1074 AH; 1664 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.
Record Sources
This record was created based on the information published in: Mir-Ansari, Ali, Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016.
Availability
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