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I. MANUSCRIPTS
formely in the possession of
SIR WILLIAM JONES.
PERSIAN: THEOLOGY, TRADITION, LAW.
No. I.
W. 129. Size 22½ x 12. ff. 300. ll. 9.
الفرايض الشريفية
Al-fará'iḍu 'sh-Sharífiyya.
A Persian translation of Sayyid Sharíf Jurjání's commentary on the
Sirájiyya, the famous treatise on the Muḥammadan Law of Inheritance by
Siráju 'd-Dín as-Sajáwandí (cf. No. XCII of this List). The translator's
name is Muḥammad Qásim ibn Muḥammad Dá'im Bardwání, and he
completed his work in a.h. 1189 (a.d. 1775–6.)
The translator's preface begins:
جوهر ازهر آرايندۂ ديهيم محاورت ستايش قسامى است
The translation begins:
جمييع ستايش يابت است مر خداس راكه پروردكار عالمهاست
and ends:
و بر مولا كه نبودن برادر وارث ميكردد تقسيم نموده شد
Not dated. 18th century. Written in large Persian nasta'líq;
wide decorative gilt margins throughout.
This volume was given by Warren Hastings to Sir William Jones,
who has made copious marginal notes throughout, and who writes at
the end, "Read four times with great attention, 22 Feb., 1793."
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