Extent: 241 leaves : paper ; 295 x 190 (205 x 125) mm. bound to 300 x 195 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from colophon, fol. 241b. On front cover: Label reading "318" in Arabic script. Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic quotations overlined in red. Paginated in Arabic script 1-485 beginning on fol. 1b. Modern printed insert after last folio gives the ancestry and dates of birth and death of Mahdī Muṭahhariyān, likely a former owner, along with his picture. Origin: Copy completed by Muṣṭafá Qulī Sulṭān, 14 Muḥarram 1257 H. [8 March 1841] (fol. 241b). However, a note following the colophon by the same scribe corrects the year to 1258 H. [25 February 1842]. Stamps of four different owners on fol. 1a, the most recent being three of Sayyid Nūr al-Dīn Muṭahhariyān (likely the same as the person mentioned in the insert, Mahdī Muṭahhariyān, who was born 13 Rajab 1294 H. [24 July 1877] and died 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1377 H. [30 June 1958]). Given as a waqf by Sayyid Muḥammad Riz̤ā Muṭahhariyān (fol. 1a, 241b), who is the author of the insert. Ownership...
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