Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic etiquette [Browse]
• Islamic ethics [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's poems and prose pieces; appears to be incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 14 lines per page; written in elegant nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes written in leaf shapes. Poetry in two columns. Fol. 39a-46b, 48a framed in gold. Light staining; in excellent condition.
• Origin: Bāb 1, 9 Ṣafar 1305 H [27 October 1887] (fol. 36b).

Binding note

Cloth with black leather spine.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• fol. 1b-36b: Bāb-i avval. In three faṣl: (1) ashʻār dar bismillāh, (2) ashʻār dar naʻt-i Muḥammad, (3) ashʻār dar manāqib-i āl va aṣḥāb va tābiʻīn.
• fol. 37a-107a: Bāb-i s̲ānī. In three faṣl: (1) dar bayān-i ādāb va akhlāq, (3) dar baʻz̤ī aqvāl-i khūb-i ḥukamā-yi dānishmand, (3) dar baʻz̲ī hikāyāt-i ʻajīb.

OCLC

819751867

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