Details

Subject(s)

• Mahdi—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Niʻmat Allāh Valī 1330?-1431 [Browse]
• Khānaqāh-i Niʻmat Allāhī [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1468Y [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Contains

• Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431. Poems. [Browse]
• نعمة الله ولي، 1330?-1431. شعر. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of three texts related to Niʻmat Allāh Valī.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title provided by cataloger.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, black and blue.
• Physical description: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red and occasionally gold (see fol. 343b). Dark cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves mended (see fol. 1-8 and fol. 400).
• Decoration: Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpieces at the beginning of texts 1 and 3 (fol. 1b and 340b).
• Origin: [Dīvān] Copied on 1 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 924 [Dec. 4, 1518] (colophon, fol. 338a) -- [Biography] Copied in 925? [1519] (colophon, fol. 400b, hardly legible).
• Incipit: [ديوان] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى عيّن عين الاعيان بفيضه الاقدس الاقدم وسبحانه من تجلى بذاته لذاته -- [Short text] بسم ... اما بعد فقد قال اخى البني المصطفى ووصيه امام اهل الارض والسما علي المرتضى ... بُنيّ اذ اخباشت الترك فاشطر ولايت مهدي يقوم ويعدل وذلّ ملوك الارض من ال هاشم -- [Biography] بسم ... الحمد لله الذي اضاء شبكات قابليات الاشياء فى علمه تعالى وتقدي بنور الوجود ... [341أ] ... اما بعد بر ضمير غيب نماى اصحاب بصيرت چون شعشعه

Binding note

Orange-brown leather over cardboard. Blind-tooled frames with small motif in the corners. Blue paper pastedowns.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-338a: Dīvān / Niʻmat Allāh Valī.
• 2. fol. 338a-340a: [Short text on the Mahdī]. Short treatise in verses and prose on the reign of the Mahdī.
• 3. fol. 340b-400b: [Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī]. Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī in five chapters (bāb) and a conclusion (see table of contents, fol. 343b). The name of Naṣr Allāh ibn Khalīl Allāh ibn Hibat Allāh is mentioned in the text.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Short text on the Mahdī.
• Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī.

OCLC

244827765

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