Delhi Persian 239 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Contents
Untitled Persian translation and commentary by Afz̤al al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Taqi al-Din Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̤ al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī Mūsavī al-Shahristānī on the treatise addressing Shīʿī theological questions, entitled Bāb al-ḥādī ʿashr, by Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim Najm al-Dīn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyá al-Ḥillī, known as the Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī (d. 676/1277).
Not dated at end.
Nastaʿlīq; Arabic quotations in awkward naskh overlined in red.
Stamped foliation.
Binding damaged (combed marble papers over pasteboards edged with leather; spine detached), labels removed.
Folios mostly bound; occasional wormholes.
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History
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
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