Text is a biographical dictionary of prominent Sufis by Jāmī based on two earlier Arabic works. The text is followed by an epilogue in the same hand.
Notes
Caption title.
Title from p. 18.
Text begins on p. 16.
List of biographical subjects on p. 2-15.
Pages 1, 14, 15, 884-888 contain numerous inscriptions and lines of poetry.
Stamp of ownership on p.1 reads: Sayyid Walīyat Hajj, dated 1128 H; other stamps on p. 732.
Colophon on p. 732.
Page 733 blank.
Ms. in nastalīq on glazed paper. 23.7 x 16.4 cm. Headings, overlinings, keywords and some vocalization in red ink. Catchwords; some vocalization. Extensive marginal notations.
Paper is glazed stock. Water stains along leaf edges. Some one hundred leaves toward the center of the volume have insect damage, primarily in the area of the last line and lower margin. Many leaves show repairs to margins. Text block has been trimmed but most notations have been presented by folding over the page edges.
Binding is red leather, wallet style. Spine is plain; covers have fillet borders and dentile frame stamped in gold. Centers have incised mandorlas with opposing tulips edged with gold lines and arrows. Mandorlas have vine motif at top and bottom, all in gold. A design of seven dots arranged in a circle is at center. Fore edge flap has dentile design between fillets and incised mandorla in gold. Cheveron endbands in red and white. Endpapers of green paper.
Explicit:... رباعيه فى تاريخ اتمامه اين نسخۀ مقتبس ز انفاس كرام. كزوا نفحات انس آيد بمشام از هجرت خير بشر وفخر انام ...
Colophon:... در هشتمد وهشتاد وسيوم كشت تمام. والحمد لله على الاتمام والصلوة على خير الانام وآله البررة الكرام والسلام تم.
Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى جعل مرائى قلوب ...اما بعد ميگويد پاى شكسته زاويۀ خمول وكم نامى عبد الرحمن ابن احمد الجامى ...
Provenance
ELS 1450. Gift of Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
Other title(s)
Nafaḥāt al-uns
نفحات الانس
OCLC
122851079
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