Majmu?ah bih khatt-i Mulla Sadra

The Islamic manuscript has many forms and shapes, from notes on a scrap of paper to the most preciously illuminated manuscript that can compete with the best one can find in the western world. Usually, a text would be written out at least twice: first as a draft and then as a clean copy from which later copies would be made. Usually, draft versions would either be destroyed, or washed and dried as a means to save paper, or used as reinforcement material by the bookbinder. Thus very few drafts have come down to us. And this is precisely what lends the present manuscript, containing a draft commentary on Qur?an 24:35 (the celebrated Light Verse) by the famous 11th/17th-century philosopher Sadr al-Din Shirazi (d. 1050/1640) its special interest. Also in this manuscript: sundry notes on the Qur?an and excerpts from two works by Najm al-Din Daya (d. 654/1256) and ?Abd al-Razzaq Kashi (d. 736/1336).