Manuscript of the Tarjuma-yi Qutub Shahi (Forty Hadith) by Baha’ al-Din Muhammad al-Amuli (Shaykh Baha’i)

The manuscript of 293 folios opens with an illuminated sarlawh. The frontispiece exhibits decorated margins bearing floral drawings in gold and text panels with interlinear gilding. The text is copied in nastaʿlīq and 19 lines to a page. The colophon provides the date Zu’l-ḥijja 1068/September 1658, and the name of the scribe Muhammad Baqir b. Mulla Rahimi al-Lahiji, a resident of Kasma. The reverse of the page provides the same date Zu’l-ḥijja 1068 (September 1658) and states that the manuscript was commissioned by Allah Quli Bika (1019–1079/1610–1669). The significance of this manuscript according to the scribe is that this copy was collated against the original copy in the hand of the author, Shaykh Baha’i. The manuscript is bound in a brown leather binding with gilt-stamped center and corner pieces.