[Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah]
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016; Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Hadith; Persian Manuscripts; Nahj al-balāghah (Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn)
Work titles: Sharḥ Nahj al-balāghah
Description: Persian translation and commentary of selections from Nahj al-balāghah. Arabic source-text is overlined and written in a different style to distinguish it.
Notes: 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.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Persian with Arabic source-text.

Bound in brown leather with central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces all with paper onlay. Inside covers have lighter brown leather pastedowns with stamped frame.

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