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Subject(s)

• Iran—Social life and customs—19th century [Browse]
• Persian poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• حضورى قمى، عزىز الله، -1591 or 1592 [Browse]
• جلال الدىن رومى، مولانا، 1207-1273 [Browse]
• عاملى، بهاء الدىن محمد بن حسىن، 1547-1621 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Ḥuz̤ūrī Qummī, ʻAzīz Allāh, -1591 or 1592. Selections. [Browse]
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. Selections. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

Satirical social commentary in the form of a mas̲navī about a mouse and a cat; followed by selections of poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 37b.
• Text erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous numbering.
• Physical description: 13-15 lines per page, in two columns; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Catchwords. Poetry selections on fol. 38a-42a in four columns. Fol. ia-ib, 42b-45a blank. Text block detached from binding. Light staining.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 15 Ṣafar 1316 H [5 July 1898] (fol. 37b). Text 2 dated 16 Rajab 1316 H [30 November 1898] (fol. 38b). Text 4 dated 1317 H [1899 or 1900] (fol. 42a).
• Incipit (text 1): اى خردمند عاقل و دانا * قصه موش و گربه برخوانا

Binding note

Loose in limp leather binding.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-37b: Hamyān / [Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Akbar Bīdʹābādī Iṣfahānī].
• 2. fol. 38a-38b: Dar shahādat-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī Aṣghar.
• 3. fol. 39a-39b: [Two poems] / Ḥuz̤ūrī.
• 4. fol. 40a-42a: [Poetry selections] / Mawlavī [and] Shaykh Bahāʼī.

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Provenance

On fol. 37b, note stating that this copy is from the library of Jānab-i Muʻtamid al-Sulṭān Āqā-yi Mīrzā Ḥasanyān Ḥakīm Huz̤ūrī. On fol. 45b, birth records of five children, dated 1300-1311 H.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah, XXV, 245

Other title(s)

• Hamyān
• همىان
• Mūsh va gurbah
• موش و گربه
• Dar shahādat-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī Aṣghar.
• در شهادت حضرت على اصغر.

OCLC

793844703

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