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Subject(s)

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

Related name

• سعدى [Browse]

Contains

• Saʻdī. Poems. Selections [Browse]
• Mīrzā Z̤iyā. Pandʹnāmah. [Browse]
• مىرزا ضىا. پند‌نامه. [Browse]
• Mīrzā Riz̤ā. Ḥikāyat bar shakhṣ-i tiryākī va mukābalāt-i ū. [Browse]
• مىرزا رضا. حکاىت بر شخص ترىاکى و مکابلات او. [Browse]
• Pseudo Aristotele. Farasnāmah. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Persian prose and poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "491" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in shikastah in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Lacunae after fol. 16, 50, 80. Some staining and smudging; numerous leaves detached. Edges somewhat ragged.
• Origin: Text 1, Jumādá II 1225 H [July 1810] (fol. 65a). Text 6, 1224 H [1809 or 10] (fol. 76a).
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله ... اما بعد اين رساله ايست مشتمل بر آنكه حكما از كتب قدما اختيار كرده اند و فوايد بسيار در ضمن هر حرفي مرقوم و معلوم ميشود
• Incipit (text 11): اين كتاب فرسنامه است از قول ارسطاطاليس حكيم در صفت هنر و عيب و افعال و الوان و غيره

Binding note

Contemporary limp brown leather.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-65a: Tuḥfat al-mulūk. Anonymous treatise on etiquette and ethics in forty bāb; for a description see Fihrist-i kutub-i adabī-i ʻirfānī-i khaṭṭī-i Kākh-i Gulistān (p. 199).
• 2. fol. 65b-68a: [Poems] / Saʻdī.
• 3. fol. 68a-72b: Firāqʹnāmah / [author's name unclear]. Mas̲navī.
• 4. fol. 72b-73b: [Extracts].
• 5. fol. 74a-75b: Pandʹnāmah / Mīrzā Z̤iyā. Mas̲navī.
• 6. fol. 76a-78b: Ḥikāyat bar shakhṣ-i tiryākī va mukābalāt-i ū / Mīrzā Riz̤ā. Mas̲navī.
• 7. fol. 79a: Munājāt.
• 8. fol. 79a-80a: Khiṭāb bā junūn. Mas̲navī.
• 9. fol. 80a-80b: Taʻrīf-i ʻishq. Mas̲navī, incomplete at end.
• 10. fol. 81a: [Notes].
• 11. fol. 81b-82a: Farasnāmah. Treatise on horses and their medical treatment in thirty bāb, attributed to Aristotle; translated from Arabic by Shams al-Dīn ibn Ḥusayn. First two pages only.
• 12. fol. 82b-86b: [Extracts and poetry].

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Provenance

On fol. 81a, birth notice dated Shaʻbān 1236 H [May 1821].

References

• Atābāy, B. Fihrist-i kutub-i adabī-i ʻirfānī-i khaṭṭī-i Kākh-i Gulistān, 199
• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 394

Other title(s)

• Firāqʹnāmah.
• فراق‌نامه.
• Munājāt.
• مناجات.
• Khiṭāb bā junūn.
• خطاب با جنون.
• Taʻrīf-i ʻishq.
• تعرىف عشق.

OCLC

812847683

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