ʻAjīb al-masāʼil. [Risālah dar hayʼat]
Contributors: Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn walad Muḥammad Akram, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1600
Language: per
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Islamic law; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: ʻAjīb al-masāʼil.; Risālah dar hayʼat.
Description: Composite manuscript with two works. The first on ritual practice with chapters on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, alms giving, pilgrimage, marriage, legal guardianship, and inheritance; the second text an astronomical treatise by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title of first work from introduction (f. 3r). Title of second work supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 14-16 long lines.

Script: Written in taʻlīq and nastaʻlīq; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; some diagrams in red.

Origin: The first item is undated, possibly produced in the 17th century, copied by Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn walad Muḥammad Akram (f. 48r). The second work is dated Jumādá al-Ūlá 1228 A.H.

Shelfmark: MS Or 23.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian.

Bound in cardboard with plain paper sides, light brown spine and edges.

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