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

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Title: Jāmiʿ-i ʿAbbāsī
Title: جامع عباسی

There is a seal on f1r, which is mostly illegible except for the word "Khān". Through comparison with the same seal on MS RSPA 19, Jones's copy of Tuḥfat al-Muʾminūn, the seal reads "Aẓḥar Khān Sayyid ʿAlī 1201" above which, on both manuscripts, is written "al-Malik wa-l-Qābiḍ".

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. الحمد لله رب العالمین والصلوه والسلام علی اشرف الاولین والآخرین
Explicit: که در هولت مخلد بدوبر اعدای مظفر وبهره مند شود ودر یکی از مشاهد
Colophon: شرفه بطاغه و عبادت الهی و وظیفه دئام هولت ابد قرین شاهر ظل الهم ... تمت هذه الکتاب بعون الله الملک الوهاب علی ید فقر الحقیر کلب عتبه الرضا ملک بتاربخ شب در دهم شهر رمضان المبارک ۱۰۷۲
Author: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī بهاء الدين محمد العاملى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Very thin woven paper.
Extent: ff.ii+386+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 65 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Good condition. Supports and guards. Several large smudges.

Layout

Hand(s)

Persian is written in a small and clear nastaʿlīq. Arabic is written in a similarly clear naskh script.

Decoration

Additions:

Marginal comments are infrequent but present in a range of hands.

After the colophon, there are two folios which are covered in a range of marginal notes by at least two different hands in a mixture of Arabic and Persian about varied topics.

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins, this manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 3 no. V

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