Details

Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, -approximately 1320. Gulshan-i rāz. [Browse]
• شبسترى، محمود بن عبد الکرىم، -approximately 1320. گلشن راز. [Browse]
• Ibn Yamīn, Fakhr al-Dīn Maḥmūd, 1287 or 1288-1367 or 1368. Dīvān. [Browse]
• ابن ىمىن، فخر الدىن محمود، 1287 or 1288-1367 or 1368. دىوان. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of four Persian poetry texts, all incomplete and one unidentified.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, arranged in two main columns and one outer marginal column; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text originally framed in gold, now on many leaves overlaid with blue by a later hand. Illuminated ʻunwan on fol. 115b heavily smudged. Text in marginal columns written on diagonal. Rubrication and catchwords. Several leaves out of order: fol. 1-4 belong after fol. 47; fol. 5 belongs after fol. 50; fol. 8-9 belong before fol. 6. Lacunae after fol. 5, 44, 47, 51, 54, 52, 101. Edges ragged and a few leaves detached or torn. Numerous paper repairs, particularly to inner margins. Some damp staining.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 11 Ramaḍān 866 H [9 June 1462] (fol. 115a).
• Incipit (text 4, as extant): آنکس درين تفکر آفتاب * در داىرۀ تحىر آفتاب

Binding note

Limp brown leather with paper doublures taken from other mss.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-115a: [Jām-i jam / Awḥadī]. Incomplete at beginning.
• 2. fol. 1a-50b (margins): [Gulshan-i rāz / Shabistarī]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
• 3. fol. 115b-147b: [Dīvān] / Ibn Yamīn. Incomplete at end.
• 4. fol. 51a-147b (margins): [Unidentified mas̲navī]. Sūfi poem divided into maqālahs; maqālah 4 is entitled "Dar ṣifat-i sālikān-i ṭarīqat" (fol. 85b). Each topic is illustrated with stories; incomplete at beginning and end.

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Provenance

Several smudged owner's stamps on a number of leaves in text 1.

OCLC

782959508

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