Persian MS 748 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: On ritulas, prayers and conduct during the Ḥajj and ‘Umrah (pilgrimage). Consists of two texts, a guide concerning the procedure of the prayer (namāz-i fajr) نماز فجر, and extracts from Muḥammad Ṭaḥir Ghazzalī's treatise, Risālah dar bayān-i mazhab-i aḥl-i sunnat va jama‘āt رساله در بیان مذهب اهل سنت و جمعات by Mulla Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Mūsawī.After giving his name and relating the content of the treatise in the preface, the author states that he compiled this work when he was getting prepared for the pilgrimage f. 1v …مقصر درگاه ربالعلمین و خادم ائمة الطاهرين محمد باقر بن محمد تقي الموسوي بعرض برادران ديني ميرسايد كه اين رساله ايست در بيان آداب و اعمال حج در اوان عزم تشرف به بيت الله العظيم بسمت تحرير رسائده…مقصر درگاه ربالعلمین و خادم ائمة الطاهرين محمد باقر بن محمد تقي الموسوي بعرض برادران ديني ميرسايد كه اين رساله ايست در بيان آداب و اعمال حج در اوان عزم تشرف به بيت الله العظيم بسمت تحرير رسائده .There is no mention of a previous visit here, but the author refers, in the text, to his previous Hajj pilgrimage in AH 1231 (AD 1816) تقریبا ساعت (؟) به غوب مانده روز هفتم ذی الحجه الحرام سنه هزار و دویست وسی وسک وارد مکه معظمه … شدیم.تقریبا ساعت (؟) به غوب مانده روز هفتم ذی الحجه الحرام سنه هزار و دویست وسی وسک وارد مکه معظمه … شدیم. The work is composed of a muqaddamah مقدمه , four maqṣad مقصد and a khātamah خاتمه .The end of the last maqsad is marked with a date, AH 1249 سنه ۱۲۴۹ separating it from the next part, which seems to be khātamah, though it bears no heading. The main work is evidently an autograph.
1.
Author: Aṣfahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, ‎1761 or 1762-1844 Shaftī, Muḥammad Bāqir Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Ḥujjat al-Islām Shaftī, Muḥammad Bāqir اصفهاني، محمد باقر بن محمد تقي
Title: Manāsik-i Ḥajj-i bayt Allāh
Title: Manāsik-i Ḥajj
Title: مناسک حج بیت الله
Title: مناسک حج
Language(s): Persian
f.1v
Title: مقدمه منحصر است در سه مطلب
f.5r
Title: مقصد اول در بیان موقیت اسب
f.5v
Title: مقصد دوم در بیان افعال تمتع است
f.14r
Title: مقصد سوم در بیان افعال حج است
f.24v
Title: مقصد سوم (چهارم) مدینه مشرفه است
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Title: Khātamah خاتمه
Incipit: (bismallah) بسم الله الرحمان الرحیم وبه نستعین f.31r

it treats various issues regarding Hajj pilgrimage in the form of a discourse (questions and answers).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 41 folios, 4 fly leaves, folios from 37v-39v blank.
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 151 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.

Condition

Slightly wormeaten, decoloration of the first few folios, repaired

Layout

19 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Black ink, rubrics in red, naskh; some apparently later additions to the copy 40r-41v in a different shikastah hand.

Additions:
  • inside cover Bookplates Bibilotheca Lindesiana
  • inside cover Bookplates Hamilton MSS No. 665 changed to Persian MSS, No. 748
  • on fly leaf Title and author's name درفقه رساله مناسک حج بیت الله از تصنیف محمد باقر بن محمد تقی الموسوی از فرقه شیعهدرفقه رساله مناسک حج بیت الله از تصنیف محمد باقر بن محمد تقی الموسوی از فرقه شیعه
  • Marginalia folio 1r contains parts of an Arabic phrase, cut off in repair الحمد الله الذي خلق الليل … وجمل لكل واحد … النهار بقوته و … مهنما حد المحدود…. الحمد الله الذي خلق الليل … وجمل لكل واحد … النهار بقوته و … مهنما حد المحدود…. and a Persian rubā‘ī: بودیم بهم جمع رفیقانی چند چون عقد خواهر (جواهر) همه همپیوند ناگاه فلک رشتهآن عقد گسست هردانه ما را بدیاری افکند
An other copy of this work? Catchwords on every verso page

Binding

Rebound in red calf leather.

History

Origin: 1249 AH

Provenance and Acquisition

From the collection of 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 of which 352 were selected after his death for the British Museum. The remainder were purchased in 1868 by Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.

Record Sources

Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993. Identification of provenance based on manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Iran Heritage Foundation

The John Rylands Research Institute

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