Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

N. 4 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: گوهر مراد. Gawhar-i-Murád ("the Pearl of Desire "), a well-known treatise on scholastic
philosophy (Ilm-i-Kalám) according to the Shi'a doctrine, by the above-mentioned
'Abdu'r-Razzaq al-Láhijí. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, p. 32. I possess two
lithographed editions of this work, one published at Tihrán in Jumádà 11, 1277/Dec.
1860, and the other in Bombay in 1301/1883-4.
Ff. 204 of 22'1 X 12 c. and 19 ll.; small, neat nasta 'liq with rubrications; no
date or colophon. A table of contents occupying two pages (ff. 1-2) is prefixed.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 204
Dimensions: 22.1 × 12 cm.

Layout

19 lines

Hand(s)

small, neat nasta 'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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