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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Mas̲navī explaining the Sufi interpretation of the words nafs, rūḥ, qalb, ʻaql, and ʻishq, in response to questions put to the author when he was twenty years old.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3a.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on fol. iia. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, in 1-2 columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Title written in large thuluth in gold outlined with black. Text and poetry quotation framed in double black lines on fol. 3b. Catchwords. Some staining, smudging and paper repairs. Poetry quotations on fol. 3a, fol. 21b.
• Incipit: منت خداىرا جلت عظمته و علت کلمته که بشعشعه انوار شموس ارواح اقمار قلوب انسانرا

Binding note

Quarter brown leather (spine and edges) with marbled paper covers; flap missing. Orange pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 637

OCLC

776613263

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