Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 144C (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Jāmiʿ-i ʿAbbāsī by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿĀmilī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Extensive treatise on Twelver Shīʿī jurisprudence by Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿĀmilī(d. 1030/1621), dedicated to Shāh ʿAbbās Ṣafavī I.

The work, consisting of twenty chapters termed bāb, is the extended version completed by Niẓām ibn Ḥusayn Sāvajī.

Dated colophon (f. 103r): copied from a copy owned by Mukhliṣ Ḥasan Khān ṣāḥib at the maqām or location of Sivāʾī Jaypūr, in Nohara (Sukhdeopura village)of Rājah Har Sahāy, written by Mīr Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī, Friday morning, 24 Z̲ī Ḥijjah RY 13 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, 1188/25 February 1775.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 103 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 113 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 24_Zi-Hijjah_1188 AH; 25 February 1775 CE ; India, Jaipur, Sukhdeopura Nohara village

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact British Library, Registering for a Reader Pass. Contact apac-enquiries@bl.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see Finding and ordering Persian manuscripts in the British Library.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL


Comments

Comment on this record

Please fill out your details.

How are we using your feedback? See our privacy policy.

See the Availability section of this record for information on viewing the item in a reading room.

TO TOP