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Summary of Contents: مصابيح القلوب A Persian manual of Shi'a theology entitled Maşabiḥu'l-Quláb ("Lamps of the
Hearts") by Mullá Hasan of Sabzawár. It comprises 53 sections, of which the
contents are enumerated on ff. 3-4. The book is unsystematic and discursive,
dealing chiefly with the virtues of the Prophet and the Imáms, the merits of various
actions and qualities, the Resurrection, etc. It begins : شکر و سپاس و ثنا و حمد بی منتها خدائی را سزاست که منزّهست از ادراک و افہام و اوهام
و متعالی است از حوادث لیالی و حروف 1 ايام الخ Ff. 148 of 23 x 16 c. and 25 ll.; small, neat naskh with rubrications; copied by
Muḥammad Baqir ibn 'Abdi'r-Riḍá ibn 'Alí 'Askar of Kázarún, who states in the
colophon on f. 148 that he began it in 1229/1814 and finished it in Rab 11, صروف Read 1257/June, 1841, "and this," he concludes, "is of the strangest and most wonderful
things": شروع کردن و ابتدا نمودن در استکتاب این کتاب در سنه هزار و دویست و بیست و نه و منتها
رسیدن و تمام گردیدن او در سنه هزار و دویست و پنجاه و هفت از هجرت نبوی گذشته وهذا من العجائب والغرايب سبحان الله This is one of the Belshah MSS. acquired in the third partition of the same in
the spring of 1920.

Author: Shīʻī Sabzvārī, Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn, 14th cent. شيعى سبزوارى، ملا حسن بن حسين

Title: Maṣābīḥ al-qulūb

Title: مصابيح القلوب

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 148

Dimensions: 23 × 16 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

small, neat naskh with rubrications

History

Origin: 1257 AH; 1841 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This is one of the Belshah MSS. acquired in the third partition of the same in the spring of 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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