Details

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

FaST Subject(s)

• Poetry

Summary note

A copy of the famous masnavi concerning the involvment of the spiritual in the material world. Unlike ʻAṭṭār's other works of this type, it has no framework story.

Notes

• Ms. in nastalīq on glazed paper. 35.5 x 22 cm. Headings in red ink. Written surface framed in blue and gold ruled lines. Hemistiches framed in ruled gold lines. Catchwords; no marginalia. F. 1b illuminated in blue, black, green, red and white geometric forms around central gold cartouche. Very clean copy.
• Paper is glazed, laid stock. Probably handmade. Extensive repairs to fore edges. Pervasive water stains at top and bottom margins. Some minor stains and smudging elsewhere.
• Binding is red leather over pasteboard. Covers have frame of two sets of fillets with embossed vine design in intervening space. Inner fillet has tiny embossed fleurs de lis along interior. Spine plain.
• Incipit: تعالى الله ازين ذرات پر نور كه در اجزاي عالم كشت مشهور ...
• Explicit: تو داني هرچه خواهي كن كه جاني نميدانم دكر باقي تو داني ...

Provenance

• ELS 6. Gift of Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Other title(s)

• Jawāhir al-dhāt
• جواهر الذات
• Jawāhirʹnāmah
• جواهر نامه

OCLC

122839503

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