Or 15922 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Jamiʻ-i ʻAbbasi
Contents
1 copy of Jāmiʻ-i ʻAbbāsī by ʻĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
A general treatise on Shī‘a jurisprudence. By Bahā’ al-Dīn ‘Āmilī (d. 1030/1621).
For references to this author see E. Kohlberg, ‘Bahā’-al-Dīn ‘Āmelī, Shaikh Moḥammad b. Hosayn Bahā’ī’, EIr III, p. 429-30. Other BL copies: Add. 23578 (Rieu I pp. 25-6).
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
15 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Neat naskhī; Arabic texts being vocalised. The copyist’s name is not entirely legible, but begins ‘Shaykh’ and includes two personal names, the second possibly being Yaḥyà.
Decoration
Red headings and overlining. No text frames.
A few notes in margins; front and end flyleaves, owners’ scribbles; f. 129v, inscription, mainly deleted, giving the name of the work and the number of folios as 130.
Binding
Brown leather binding with blind-tooled border lines; spine with raised bands, in need of repair.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2002-10-17
Purchased at Bonhams and Brooks auction, 17 October 2002, Lot 85 (1 of 4 MSS).
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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