Or 15983 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Sharh-i Hada’iq al-fava’id al-samadiyah
Contents
1 copy of Sharḥ-i Hadā’iq al-favā’id al-ṣamadīyah by Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī
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.
Physical Description
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.
Binding
Very dark brown morocco binding, rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2004-01-15
Bonhams sale 15 Jan 2004, lot 362.
Record Sources
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