Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2007Y [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230. Mukhtārʹnāmah. Ottoman Turkish. Selections. [Browse]
• عطار، فريد الدين، -approximately 1230. مختارنامة. تركية. مختارات. [Browse]
• ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230. Asrārnāmah. Ottoman Turkish. Selections. [Browse]
• عطار، فريد الدين، -approximately 1230. اسرارنامة. تركية. مختارات. [Browse]
• İbn İsa-yı Saruhanî, -1559? Rumuz-ı künuz. Fasıl 11. [Browse]
• ابن عيسى سرحانى، -1559؟ رموز كنوز. فصل 11. [Browse]

Summary note

Contains a translation of a Persian poetry work, a text on biographies, and a guide for Sufi novices.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Layout: 15-21 lines per page in one or two columns.
• Description: Rubricated.
• Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather with laid mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. The spine is broken. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed.
• Incipit: [كشف رموز] مشايخ عظام ائمۀ كرام زمان اولده فى كيديلر وياخود مكره ... -- [Guide] وجودى يوقدر نتكم بيور مشدر ليس فى الوجود ش
• Explicit: [كشف رموز] بوكتابى تاريخ هجرت نبوينك طقوز يوز التمش بشك ورجبنه ايردكده صاروخان اقحصارنده يازوب ظهوره كتوردى مرجودركه نظر ايدنلر شيخ مجد الدين اق حصارى يه دعا لرايده لردر والسلام تمت. -- [Guide] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلات والسلام على منا بعد اى طالب انسان رحيم وابى راغب سلطان ...

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-15b: Tercume-yi Muhtarname-yi Şeyh Attar. Principally a translation of ʻAttār's Mukhtārnāmah along with his Asrārnāmah (f.13b-15b) and a "Hikayet" (f.15b). The last line of the "Hikayet" contains the date of composition: 979 A.H. [1571 or 1572].
• 2. fol. 16a-24a: Keşf-i rumuz. 11th part, the section on meşayih, of Rumuz-ı künuz. It was composed in Recep 965 A.H. [beg. 19 April 1558].
• 3. fol. 24a-34b: [Guide for Sufi novices].

Provenance

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

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Guide for Sufi novices.
• Tercume-yi Muhtarname-yi Şeyh Attar.
• ترجمه ى مختارنامه ى شىخ عطار.
• Keşf-i rumuz.

OCLC

436110031

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