Details

Subject(s)

• Mysticism—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of 51 letters, chiefly on mysticism, addressed to Sulṭān Ḥusayn, Bābar, Humāyūn, Shāh Ismāʻīl Ṣafavī, Ḥusayn Vāʾiẓ Kāshifī, and their contemporaries. On leaf 1a is one of the author's poems; on leaf 41a is a medical prescription in Persian and Turkish.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining and smudging; some insect damage. In good condition.
• Origin: Likely from India.
• Incipit: بعد از انشاى حمد بى عد و ثناى بىحد پادشاهى که از ازل تا بابد

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 105
• Storey, C.A. Persian literature, III, 267

OCLC

843180684

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