Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 123

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DS ID:

DS6536

Shelfmark:

MS Or 123

Title:

Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah

Author:

Rawghanī, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Bāqir, -1632 or 1633 / روغنى، محمد صالح بن محمد باقر، - -1632 or 1633

Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Rawghanī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian with Arabic source-text

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 126 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 220 x 125 (165 x 75) mm, bound to 225 x 125 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 16 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Persian in nastaʻliq; Arabic in naskh.
Decoration: Headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1v) with text on cloudbands in the first opening (f. 1v-2r) with gold, black, red and blue border-rules. Textblock on all other pages is border-ruled in black, gold, blue. Arabic source-text is overlined in gold and written in naskh to distinguish it from the translation. Gold, floriated tailpiece (f. 126r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 123.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Nahj al-balāghah (Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn)

Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016. Nahj al-balāghah

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661

Manuscripts, Persian

Hadith

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892974

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892974_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library