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Summary of Contents: (1) اعتقادات الامامية لابن بابويه
(1) مكارم الأخلاق المطيري This MS. comprises two parts with separate pagination, viz.: (1) The Beliefs of the Imámiyya (or Shi'a) by Abú Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali
ibnu'l-lusayn ibn Músà Bábawayhi of Qum (d. 381/991: see Brockelmann, 1, 187)
The contents are stated in the Kashful-Hujub, p. 51, No. 239, but the initial
doxology there given is different. This copy begins, after the Bismi'lláh : الحمد لله ربّ العالمين وصلى الله على محمّد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين باب في صفة اعتقاد
الامامية، قال الشيخ ابو جعفر محمد بن على بن الحسين بن موسى بابويه القمى الفقيه المصنف
لهذا الكتاب اعلم ان اعتقادنا في التوحيد الخ This Arabic treatise ends on p. 87, and is followed (pp. 88-104) by another, of
which the first part (pp. 88-94), in Arabic, contains Traditions as to the merit
acquired by the visitation of the tomb of the eighth Imám 'Ali ar-Ridá at Mashhad,
while the second part (pp. 94-104), in Persian, describes how that visitation should
be performed. (2) On the virtues and noble qualities of the Prophet (464 pp., defective at end)
by Shaykh Abú Nasr al-Hasan ibn Abi 'Ali al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan at-Tabarsí. See
the Kashful-Hujub, p. 548, No. 3086, where the initial words exactly correspond
with this MS. The work is divided into twelve chapters, each containing several
sections, and breaks off in the course of Section 5 of Chapter XII, the last two
sections being completely lost. The MS. is written throughout in the same hand, a legible naskh with rubri-
cations. A note of ownership on the title-page is dated 20 Shawwál, 1243/5 May, 1828. It is from the Belshah collection.

1. pp. 1-87

Author: Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 918 or 19-991 or 2 محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن موسى بابويه ابو جعفر القمي

Title: Iʻtiqād al-imāmīyah li-Ibn Bābawayh

Title: اعتقاد الامامية لابن بابويه

Language(s): Arabic

2. pp. 88-104

Author: anonymous

Title: Treatise on the merits of the visitation of the tomb of the Imam ʻAlī al-Riḍá at Mashhad and on how the visitation should be performed

Language(s): Arabic and Persian

3. pp. 1-464

Author: Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan, d. 1153 الطبرسي، الحسن بن ابي علي الفضل بن الحسن ابو نصر

Title: Makārim al-akhlāq li-al-Ṭabarsī

Title: مكارم الاخلاق للطبرسي

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 464

Dimensions: × cm.

Layout

lines

Hand(s)

The MS. is written throughout in the same hand, a legible naskh with rubrications.

History

Origin: undated AH; Gregorian CE

Provenance and Acquisition

It is from the Belshah collection.

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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