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Summary of Contents: In Minasian collection, there are 19 manuscripts under the generic title of Adʿīyah [Prayers]. The reason is that their individual titles have remained unknown for different reasons, including defective incipits and explicits.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Prayers

Author: Anonymous

Title: [Adʿīyah]

Title: [ادعیه]

Incipit: ||… ان ربی علی صراط المستقیم. در صبح و شام سه مرتبه بخواند…

Explicit: … و بعد از اینها دو رکعت نماز زیارت بگذارد و مطالب خود را بخواهد.

Colophon: تمام شد زیارت عاشورا… خلیل الله صاحب خط

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 34

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Western paper (plain and watermark), natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular), one size.

Extent: 99 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 18 × 8 cm.

Layout

Various lines on different pages.

Hand(s)

Nastaʿalīq, Naskh, Shikastah, Shikastah Nastaʿalīq; varying width and height; small, regular and large hands, several hands. Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī مجلسی، محمد باقر بن محمد تقی Nūrī, Aḥmad ʿAlī Lārī نوری، احمد علی لاری Khalīl Allāh خلیل الله Dilgīr, Yūsif دلگیر، یوسف Qārī Iṣfahānī, ʿAbd al-Ḥusayn Ḥusaynī قاری اصفهانی، عبدالحسین حسینی

Binding

Brown leather, 9 × 19 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only.

Condition

Damage in the head band and stitching.

History

Origin: 1109, 1152, 1203, 1205 AH; 1698, 1740, 1789, 1791 CE ; Unknown place of origin

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Record Sources

This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).

Availability

Entry to the Library is permitted upon presentation of a valid university ID card (for admissions procedures, please visit Wadham College Library, Persian Studies Section). Please Contact persian.library@wadham.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Key to bibliographical abbreviations of alternative versions:

Libraries:

AQR: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi; FAW: Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection); GIE: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Manuscripts; GIP: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Photographed and Microfilmed Manuscripts; GUL: Library of Ayatollah Gulpayigani; MAJ: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly; MAL: Malek National Museum and Library; MNL: Mar'ashi Najafi Library; NLI: National Library of Iran; SEP: Sepahsalar (Shahid Motahari) Mosque and School of Tehran; TCL: Tabriz Central Public Library; UTL: Central Library of University of Tehran;

Catalogues:

ALZ: الذریعه; ARP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی عربی; COM: فهرست مشترک نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; DEN: فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران (دنا); FAM: فهرست نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; FAP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی فارسی; FIH: فهرستواره کتاب‌های فارسی; KAS: کشف الظنون عن اسامی الکتب و الفنون; RAY: ریحانة الادب فی تراجمِ المعروفین بالکنیة او اللّقب; TAB: طبقات اعلام الشیعه.

Funding of Cataloguing

Wadham College (University of Oxford)

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