J. 14 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: اثار احمدی Athár-i-Ahmadi, an acephalous and anonymous Persian work containing
anecdotes of the Prophet Muhammad. The beginning of the Preface is missing,
and the author only speaks of himself as "this erring and sinful servant" (" lol), but he gives the title of the book as above in the last line of f. 2, and
says that he compiled it at the request of certain friends whose commands it was his
duty to obey. Amongst his sources he mentions the Rawdatu'l-Ahbáb, a work
composed about 930/1523-4, and described on p. 147 of Rieu's Persian Catalogue.
The following note by a former owner on the blank page at the beginning of the
MS. ascribes it to 66 one of our men of learning in the time of the Şafawi kings": هذا كتاب الآثار الأحمدى لبعض علمائنا في زمن السلاطين الصفوية وقد انتقل الى العبد
الفقير محمد باقر بن محمد تقی بن محمد باقر الاصفهانى فى شهر محرم من شهور سنة ۱۳۲۴ One leaf at least seems to be missing between the remains of the Preface and
the body of the work, the first complete section of which is entitled: گفتار در ذکر حلیمه خاتون بمگه آمدن و آنحضرت را بوی سپردن بجهة شير دادن و عجائب
و غرائب از آن سرور بظهور آمدن و باز آوردن آنحضرت را بمکه و بعبد المطلب سپردن و باقی از حالات آن سرور The end of the MS. is also missing. The last section (f. 248") is headed: گفتار در ذکر کرامات امام محمد مهدی هادی علیه السلم Ff. 250 of 25'7 x 156 c. and 20 ll.; good ta'liq with rubrications. Bought of
Hájji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in 1920.
anecdotes of the Prophet Muhammad. The beginning of the Preface is missing,
and the author only speaks of himself as "this erring and sinful servant" (" lol), but he gives the title of the book as above in the last line of f. 2, and
says that he compiled it at the request of certain friends whose commands it was his
duty to obey. Amongst his sources he mentions the Rawdatu'l-Ahbáb, a work
composed about 930/1523-4, and described on p. 147 of Rieu's Persian Catalogue.
The following note by a former owner on the blank page at the beginning of the
MS. ascribes it to 66 one of our men of learning in the time of the Şafawi kings": هذا كتاب الآثار الأحمدى لبعض علمائنا في زمن السلاطين الصفوية وقد انتقل الى العبد
الفقير محمد باقر بن محمد تقی بن محمد باقر الاصفهانى فى شهر محرم من شهور سنة ۱۳۲۴ One leaf at least seems to be missing between the remains of the Preface and
the body of the work, the first complete section of which is entitled: گفتار در ذکر حلیمه خاتون بمگه آمدن و آنحضرت را بوی سپردن بجهة شير دادن و عجائب
و غرائب از آن سرور بظهور آمدن و باز آوردن آنحضرت را بمکه و بعبد المطلب سپردن و باقی از حالات آن سرور The end of the MS. is also missing. The last section (f. 248") is headed: گفتار در ذکر کرامات امام محمد مهدی هادی علیه السلم Ff. 250 of 25'7 x 156 c. and 20 ll.; good ta'liq with rubrications. Bought of
Hájji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in 1920.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 250
Dimensions: 25.7 × 15.6 cm.
Layout
20 lines
Hand(s)
good ta'liq with rubrications
History
Origin: undated
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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