Containers:

Box 1

Identifier:

Manuscript no. 1

Dates:

1658

Scope and content:

Persian dictionary of Koranic Arabic and Hadith terms. The author praises Sul?an Mu?ammad and his heir (2a) and calls them "The adornment of the Hall of the Mus?afawi lineage, and the decoration of the pride of the Murta?awi family," implying a Sayyid king, possibly ?afawid. If so, the named Sul?an would be Sul?an Mu?ammad Khudabandah father of Shah ?bbas, and the date of composition would fall between 1577-1586 CE.

• Author: Mu?ammad ibn ?bd al-Khaliq ibn Ma 'arif, fl. 16th cent?
• Scribe: Ibn Abi Turab Mu?ammad Ibrahim (al-?usayn?)
• Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
• Origin: ?afawid Persia
• Layout: Average of 21 lines of text per page.
• Script: Written in fine nast? liq hand.
• Decoration: Illuminated title page.
• Binding: Decorated red leather binding. Covers painted with portraits of youths; inside covers painted with partridges.
• Additional description: Arabic terms and phrases in red. Marginalia. Occasional bleeding of red ink, particularly in the last third of the text; light brown staining and black ink stains on a number of leaves. Misspelled fore-edge title; spine title.
• Contents:
  • ff. 1b-3a: Preface;
  • ff. 3a-4b: Table of contents;
  • ff. 4b-375a: Twenty eight chapters according to the letters of the alphabet (alif to ya).

Physical description:

375 leaves : paper, ill. ; 212 × 120 (167 × 77) mm. bound to 217 × 124 mm.

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