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Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—Criticism and interpretation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Translations into Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī Maulana 1207-1273—Mas̲navī [Browse]

Contains

• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. Mas̲navī. Selections [Browse]
• جلال الدين رومي، مولانا، .1207-1273 مثنوي. .Selections [Browse]

Summary note

The work is an Ottoman Turkish translation and commentary by İlmı̂ Dede on the Persian Jazīrah-ʼi Mas̲navī, a selection by Yusuf Sinaneddin Sineçak of 366 verses from Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī's Mas̲navī.

Notes

• Title and alternative title from Arabic colophon.
• Volume consists of 57 leaves of glazed paper measuring 206 x 146 mm.; text area measures 162 x 93 mm. Text is on f. 1b-53b, written in rika script; f. 1a, 54a-57b blank. Original Persian text, keywords, overlining, and periods in red ink; catchwords included. Binding is pasteboard with marbled paper covers.
• Explicit, p. [104]: بو معانينك حقيقتنه مطلع اولمق ممكن دكلدر جهد ايدوب توفيق حقه رفيق اولوب آلت حق اولمغه سعى اتمك كركدر والسلام.
• Colophon, p. [104-105]: تمت النسخة الشريفة المباركة المسمى بشرح جزيرة المثنوي المكين بلمحات لمعات بحر المعنوي وهي مرأت للسلكين ومرقات للناسلين ...
• Incipit, p. [1]: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد بى حد وثناى بى عد اول حى بى زواله كه بنده كان صاحب دلانه ظلمات حهالتدن ...

Provenance

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

Other title(s)

• Lamaḥāt lamaʻāt al-baḥr al-maʻnawī.
• لمحات لمعات البحر المعنوي.

OCLC

122839465

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