Delhi Persian 64B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Mukhtasar of Majlisi, juz' 2
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1 copy of a work by Majlisī, Muḥammad Taqī ibn Maqṣūd ʻAlī, 1594 or 5-1659 or 60
Abridged translation, here entitled Mukhtaṣar, by Muḥammad Taqī Majlisī based on a larger Arabic treatise on Shīʿī doctrine by the early scholar Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Mūsá ibn Bābūyah (Bābavayh) Qummī
The present volume consists of juzʾ 2
Multiple dated colophons (ff. 174r, 377r, 457r): 1) 1 Shavvāl 1215/15 February 1801 by Fayz̤ Allāh; 2) Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1107 (sic, read 1207)/16 November 1792 by Fayz̤ Allāh; 3) 1 Muḥarram 1200/4 November 1785
Some replacement folios added later in shikastah, otherwise the volume is in a simple rounded naskh hand
Gilt and polychrome rulings; crude illuminated headpieces added later
Creased, crumpled, and torn; severely damaged by fungal and water stains; unbound; very fragile
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