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Lot 46•,R
Mullah Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, Kitab Zad al-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), copied by 'Abd al-Wahab Qajar Persia, dated AH 1250/AD 1834-35
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Mullah Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, Kitab Zad al-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), copied by 'Abd al-Wahab
Qajar Persia, dated AH 1250/AD 1834-35
Qajar Persia, dated AH 1250/AD 1834-35
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 256 leaves, 18 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in black and gold, several leaves with Persian interlinear translation in nasta'liq script in red, significant words and phrases in red and blue, titles written in gold riqa' outlined in black within a cartouche, fine illuminated double-page frontispiece, floral lacquer binding
207 x 142 mm.
207 x 142 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's, Fine Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 19th April 1983, lot 159 (illustrated).
The Shakerine Collection.
Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 220-221, no. 55.
Muhammad Baqir bin Muhammad Taqi bin Maqsud 'Ali al-Majlisi al-Isfahani was born in 1627 and was Shaykh al-Islam during the reign of Shah Sulayman Safavi (reg. 1666-94), and Mulla Bashi under Shah Sultan Husayn (d. 1713). His works include Bihar al-Anwar, Seas of Lights, and Zad al-ma'ad, the well-known book of prayers and pious observances for ordinary and special days throughout the year.
It is arranged into 14 chapters, with sub-divisions. The first nine chapters are on religious practices and prayers of the 12 lunar months. In this manuscript, it starts with the month of Rajab. Other sections are on rituals of each month, common prayers, pilgrimages to holy places, on death and funerals and religious taxes.
This manuscript is copied in fine naskhi for Aqa Haji Baba, son of the deceased Haji Ghulam Husayn Kazeruni, by 'Abd al-Wahhab in the month of Safar 1250/June-July 1834. Neither the patron nor the scribe is identified. Section headings are written in riqa', in gold, outlined in black in finely illuminated panels. Short titles of each section is written on the top-right corners of each recto folio in blue, except the month of Rajab which is in gold. Several leaves have the Kumayl prayer, written in interlinear Persian in nasta'liq in red, which is included amongst those prayers to be recited in the month of Sha'ban.
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