Persian MS 619 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
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]
Physical Description
Condition
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.
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 pageBinding
Firmely rebound in red calf leather
History
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.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation
The John Rylands Research Institute
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