[Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah]

شرح فارسى نهج البلاغه

Description

Main Author

Rawghanī, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Bāqir, -1632 or 1633.

Related Names

Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016.
Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016.
Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner.
Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Language(s)

Persian

Published

[Iran?], [between 1750 and 1850?]

Subjects

ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, > ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, / Caliph, > ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, / Caliph, / approximately 600-661.
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, > ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, / Caliph, > ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, / Caliph, / approximately 600-661 > ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, / Caliph, / approximately 600-661 / Hadith.
Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, > Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, / 969 or 970-1016. > Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, / 969 or 970-1016. / Nahj al-balāghah.
Nahj al-balāghah (Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn)
Manuscripts, Persian.
Hadith.
Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts (documents)

Summary

Persian translation and commentary of selections from Nahj al-balāghah. Arabic source-text is overlined and written in a different style to distinguish it.

Note

Shelfmark: MS Or 123.
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).
Script: Persian in nastaʻliq; Arabic in naskh.
Layout: 16 long lines; border-ruled.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript codex.

Physical Description

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

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