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Sharh-i Hada’iq al-fava’id al-samadiyah

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1 copy of Sharḥ-i Hadā’iq al-favā’id al-ṣamadīyah by Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī

Title: Sharḥ-i Hadā’iq al-favā’id al-ṣamadīyah
Title: شرح حدائق الفوائد الصمدیه

Commentary in Persian on a treatise in Arabic, by the Iranian scholar and poet Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī, on Arabic grammar. The author of the commentary is Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī of Tabriz. The wording of the colophon shows Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī to have been a Shī‘ī extremely hostile to Sunnīs.

The present manuscript is possibly unique. A different commentary in Persian, entitled Sharḥ al-Favā’id al-Ṣamadīyah or Sharḥ al-Samadīyah, was composed in 1266/1850 by Mīrzā Muḥammad Tankābunī for his son Mīrzā Sulaymān: see Aḥmad Munzavī, FNKhF III, p. 2065 (only one manuscript, in Tehran University Library).  For al-‘Āmilī (d. 1030/1620 or the following year) see E. Kohlberg, ‘Bahā’-al-Dīn ‘Āmelī’, EIr III, pp. 429-30, and references there given.

Only folios 1r-10r contain full marginal text.

This is the autograph manuscript.

Colophon, f. 218r-v. Completed at Tabrīz, on a Friday in Rabī‘ al-avval 1123/April-May 1711.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
Author: Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī صادق الحسینی

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Off-white paper of medium thickness, probably European.
Extent: 218 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 128 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Older foliation in pencil, in Arabic.

Condition

Layout

11 lines.

Hand(s)

Good nasta‘līq.

Decoration

Main text and catchwords in red. Diagonal misṭar lines visible in the margins throughout.

Additions:

Binding

Very dark brown morocco binding, rebacked.

History

Origin: Rabī‘ al-avval 1123 (April - May 1711) AH ; Tabriz. Completed on a Friday, Rabī‘ al-avval 1123 in /April-May 1711.  

Provenance and Acquisition

2004-01-15

Bonhams sale 15 Jan 2004, lot 362.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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