Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Maktabī Shīrāzī, d. 1510 or 11. Laylī va Majnūn. [Browse]
• مکتبى شىرازى، d. 1510 or 11. لىلى و مجنون. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two texts; the first is Makatabī's mas̲navī, Laylī va Majnūn, and the second is Muḥammad Sharīf's Sirāj al-munīr, a collection of moral anecdotes in imitation of Saʻdī's Gulistān, in 20 lamʻah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning with "2" on the first folio. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: Text 1 is 13 lines per page, in three columns; written in shikastah in black, with catchwords; third column written on a diagonal. Text 2 is 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black, with rubrication and catchwords. Texts framed in blue and gold with outer marginal gold border; columns separated by double gold lines. On thin, beige, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Light staining and smudging; in excellent condition.
• Origin: Text 2 copied by Aḥmad Ibn Ismāʻīl (fol. 121a); part of colophon has been cut away.
• Incipit (text 1): اى بر احديتت ز آغاز * خلق ازل و ابد هم آواز
• Incipit (text 2): ستايش کرىمى را که حله خلتش زىورىست زىبنده

Binding note

Full red leather with gold-tooled diamond pattern and gold-stamped fillets; green paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-65a: [Laylī va Majnūn / Maktabī Shīrāzī].
• 2. fol. 66b-121a: Sirāj al-munīr / [Muḥammad Sharīf ibn Muḥammad].

References

• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 861
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XII, 161; XVIII, 397

Other title(s)

• Kitāb-i Sirāj al-munīr
• کتاب سراج المنىر

OCLC

797159108

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