Description of Columbia University. MS Or 123: Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 123: Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 123: Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript codex. Title supplied by cataloger. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 123 13616607 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076546504 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_123.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13616607 Persian translation and commentary of selections from Nahj al-balāghah. Arabic source-text is overlined and written in a different style to distinguish it. Persian with Arabic source-text Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah. [شرح فارسى نهج البلاغه] Rawghanī, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Bāqir, -1632 or 1633 روغنى، محمد صالح بن محمد باقر، - Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016 Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016 former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v [Sharḥ-i Nahj al-balāghah].

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 126 leaves : 220 x 125 (165 x 75) mm, bound to 225 x 125 mm Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. 16 long lines; border-ruled. Persian in nastaʻliq; Arabic in naskh. 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). Library note in English Illuminated headpiece Illuminated border

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.

 between 1750 and 1850? Iran? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts