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Subject(s)

• Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shams Maghribī, Muḥammad Shīrīn 1349?-1406 or 1407—Jām-i jahānʹnumā [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 32W [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Contains

• Shams Maghribī, Muḥammad Shīrīn, 1349?-1406 or 1407. Jām-i jahānʹnumā. [Browse]
• شمس مغربى، محمد شيرين، 1349?-1406 or 1407. جام جهان‌نما. [Browse]
• Faqīh, ʻAlī. Mirʼāt al-ḥaqāyiq. [Browse]
• فقيه، علي. مرآه الحقايق. [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

Collection of texts on Sufism.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Collective title from cover.
• Layout 16-24 lines per page in one to three columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; written in different hands on a variety of glazed, laid Arabic paper ; MS in poor condition, extensive insect damage; a few leaves are particularly damaged. Numerous paper repairs and occasional damp staining.
• Incipit: [رسالۀ مراتب] الحمد لله ... اما بعد [...] که مراتب وجود باصطلاح صوفية رضوان الله تعالى عليهم اجمعين پنج [...] هاهوت و لاهوت و جبروت و ملکوت و ناسوت -- [بيان تنزل] ذات بيحون [؟] بود اول بى نشان * نى تعين داشت نى از نام و نشان -- [Commentary] که برزخست بين الوجوب و الامکان در مقابله حقيقة محمدى صلى الله عليه وسلم که برزخست ميان احديت و واحديت بس اين حقيقة آدم عليه السلام متاخر است از حقيقة محمدى صلى الله عليه وسلم -- [Treatise] مغفرة واجر عظيم ان الذين ينادونک من وراه [!] الحجرات ... همين تعليم است گوش دار شعر هر آنکه طالب آن حضرت است مطلوبيست * محب دوست بتحقيق عين محبوبيست -- [كتاب مرآت] قال الامام المحقق المدقق الولى المولى المخدوم فقيه على بسم الله ... حمد مران [؟] خداوندى را که نمود دلهاى خواص خودرا وجوه تجليات خود

Binding note

Half leather with marbled paper covers.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Shikastah.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-8a: Risālah-ʼi Marātib-i ʻavālim-i khamsah. Anonymous Sufi treatise on the five levels of existence.
• 2. leaves 8a-10b: Bayān-i tanazzul-i ḥaqq bi-ʻaqāyid-i Ṣūfīyah. Anonymous Sufi poem in mas̲navī form; incomplete at end.
• 3. leaves 11a-18b: Dar naṣīḥat. Anonymous Sufi poem of advice in mas̲navī form; incomplete at beginning.
• 4. leaves 19a-53b, 72a-79b: [Commentary on the Jām-i jahānʹnumā]. Commentary on the Jām-i jahānʹnumā by Shams Maghribī, with diagrams on leaves 24a, 35b-36a; incomplete at beginning and end. Text is out of order; correct order is: leaf 79, leaves 73-78, leaf 72, [lacuna], leaves 19-53. Original text in red.
• 5. leaves 54a-62b: [Treatise on Sufism]. Sufi treatise consisting of a selection of verses from the Qurʼān explained with relevant quotations of poetry; incomplete at beginning.
• 6. leaves 62b-71b: Kitāb-i Mirʼāt al-ḥaqāyiq / Faqīh ʻAlī. Sufi treatise on such topics as the unity of God, revelation, and the nature of man; incomplete at end.

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 133.

Other title(s)

• Marātib-i ʻavālim-i khamsah.
• مراتب عوالم خمسه.
• Bayān-i tanazzul-i ḥaqq bi-ʻaqāyid-i Ṣūfīyah.
• بيان تنزل حق بعقايد صوفية.
• Dar naṣīḥat.
• در نصيحة.
• Commentary on the Jām-i jahānʹnumā.
• Treatise on Sufism.
• Risālah-ʼi Marātib-i ʻavālim-i khamsah.
• رسالۀ مراتب عوالم خمسه.
• Kitāb-i Mirʼāt al-ḥaqāyiq.
• کتاب مرآه الحقايق.

OCLC

844193649

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