Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufi poetry, Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Sufi poetry and a Sufi treatise on the stages of gnosis.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black by a single hand on beige unglazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 2 in two columns and a few scattered pages are written by a different hand. Notes on fol. 1a-2a, 28a, 103b, 107b-108b; fol. 27b, 37b blank. Some damp staining and smudging, which has reduced legibility of text on a few pages; slight insect damage. Numerous paper repairs and some leaves are detached.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 2 Rabīʻ I 1121 H [12 May 1709] (fol. 20b); text 2 likely written not long afterwards.
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد بدانکه پوشىده نماند که اين رساله است در بىان معرفت الله و سالکان ممالک سراى وجود و عارفان بارگاه احديه بچند مرتبه از مراتب طرقى احوال براه روان راه دىن مرتب ساخته تا بمراتب درجات علوى و مقاصد بندگى برسند

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; brown pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-20b: Risālah dar bayān-i maʻrifat-i Allāh. In 62 marātib.
• 2. fol. 21b-107a: [Selections of Sufi poetry]. From a variety of authors, including Shāh Faz̤l Naʻīmī, Farīd al-Dīn, Kamāl Ismāʻīl, and Rūmī.

OCLC

760067759

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