Persian MS 619 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: A selection of traditional prayers compiled by prolific Shī‘ī scholar Mullā Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisi al-Isfahani (ca. 1627–1699. Dedicated to Safavid ruler Ḥusayn I (b. 1668, r. –1726 the author describes how he excerpted this text arranged in fourteen chapters and a conclusion from his much larger four-volume collection of traditions, Biḥār al-Anvār (Oceans of Lights), as an aid for the devout.
Author: Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 8-ca. 1699 Mullā Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisi al-Isfahani, 1627 or 8-ca. 1699 مجلسي، محمد باقر بن محمد تاقي
Title: Zād al-maʻād
Title: زاد المعاد
Incipit: الحمدلله الذی جعل العبادة و سیلة لنیل السعادة فی الاخرة والاولی و الصلوة علی الوری محمد و عترته ائمه الهدی اما بعد بنده خاطی محمد باقر بن محمد تقی عفی الله عن جرایمها بر الواح ارواح صافیه برادران ایمانی و اخلای روحانی می نگارد...
Language(s): Persian

Majlisi one of the most prolific writers of the shi’ite literature, claiming the authorship of ten Arabic and forty-nine Persian works of which Zād al-maʻād is the ninth title in the list of the Persian ones. It was composed after the compilation of Bihar al-Anvār and prior to writing of an extract of this work entitled Za’idah-yi Zād al-Ma‘dd زائده زادالمعاد (a copy of which is introduced by Rieu, Supplement 6a) [for further information see Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, ii 325-6]

1. 3a
Title: Bāb 1
Title: باب ۱
Title: در فضایل و اعمال ماه مبارک رجب وآن وشتمل بر پنج فصل است
2. 28a
Title: Bāb 2
Title: باب ۲
Title: در بیان فضائل و اعمال ماه مبارک شعبان و ایام لیالی آن است و در آن نیز پنج فصل است
3. 54b
Title: Bāb 3
Title: باب ۳
Title: در بیان مجمل از فضایل و اعمال ماه مبارک رمضانست و در آن هشت فصل است
4. 168b
Title: Bāb 4
Title: باب ۴
Title: در اعمال و ایام و لیالی متبرکه ماه شوال و ماه ذی قعده است
5. 182a
Title: Bāb 5
Title: باب ۵
Title: در بیان فضائل و اعمال ماه ذی الحجه است و در آن پنج فصل است
6. 252a
Title: Bāb 6
Title: باب ۶
Title: (در بیان اعمال ماه محرم است و در آن سه فضلاست (کذا, سه فصل است
7. 273b
Title: Bāb 7
Title: باب ۷
Title: در اعمال ماه صفر است و اینماه مشهور است به نحوست
8. 278b
Title: Bāb 8
Title: باب ۸
Title: در فضایل ایام و اعمال ماه ربیع الاول است و در آن دو فصل است
9. 306a
Title: Bāb 9
Title: باب ۹
Title: در اعمال ماه ربیع الثانی و جمید الاولی و جمیدالثانی است و در آن سه فصل است
10. 319b
Title: Bāb 10
Title: باب ۱۰
Title: در اعمال هر ماه است
11. 324b
Title: Bāb 11
Title: باب ۱۱
Title: در بیان زیارت حضرت رسول خدا و ائمه هدی صلوات الله علیهم است بغیر آنچه سابقأ مذکور شد
12. 353a
Title: Bāb 12
Title: باب ۱۲
Title: در بیان نمازهای واجب است که مخصوص روز و ماهی نیست و نمازهای سنت که اختصاص بوقتی ندارد و اعمالیکه بغیر ماههای عربی تعلق دارد و در آن هشت فصلست
13. 368a
Title: Bāb 13
Title: باب ۱۳
Title: در بیان احکام اموات است و در آن پنج فصل است
14. 391b
Title: Bāb 14
Title: باب ۱۴
Title: در مجملی از احکام زکوة و خمس و اعتکاف است و در این سه فصل است
401b
Title: Khātimah
Title: خاتمه
Title: در بیان کفارات است

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 406 folios, 4 fly leaves (ff. ii + 406 +ii).
Dimensions (leaf): 247 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Condition

Handle text with caution. In fair condition, with extensive water stains.

Layout

Written a single colum with 16 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Black ink, rubrics in red; carelessly written in mixed inconsistent hands. The text of the Arabic prayer in thulth and the inter linear Persian version and commentaries in nasta‘līq and shikastah.copied by Mīrzā Muḥammad Ibn Mīrzā Mu‘min Khān Khurāsānī میرزا محمد بن میرزا معمن خان , who has given the words connected with date, but the numbers are being left out with a lacuna apparently for the want of red ink.

Additions:

Majlisi is seen to be the most prolific writer of the shi’ite literature, claiming the authorship of ten Arabic and forty-nine Persian works of which Zād al-maʻād is the ninth title in the list of the Persian ones. It was composed after the compilation of Bihar al-Anvār and prior to writing of an extract of this work entitled Za’idah-yi Zād al-Ma‘dd زائده زادالمعاد (a copy of which is introduced by Rieu, Supplement 6a) [for further information see Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum, ii 325-6].

Marginalia, additions in the margins Inscriptions: Title on f. 1a هذا الکتاب مسمی بزادالمعاد فی بیان الاذکار و الاوراد من تصنیف محمد باقر بن محمد تقی Bookplates inside cover Bibilotheca Lindesiana (MSS No. 536 crossed and changed to Persian MSS No. 619) Catchwords on every verso page

Binding

Firmely rebound in red calf leather

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Subsequently acquired by Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867, latterly as Commissioner in Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library.

Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) purchased the remainder of Hamilton's collection in 1868.

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913).

Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to the John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993, derived from a manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s, concisely published as Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Hand-list of Oriental Manuscripts: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, 1898.

Manuscript description by Jake Benson in 2022 with reference to the volume in hand.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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