Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Translator

• Dārā Shikūh, Prince, son of Shahjahan, Emperor of India, 1615-1659 [Browse]

Summary note

Selections from Dārā Shikūh's translation of fifty Upanishads, known as Sirr al-asrār or Sirr-i akbar; with notes and verses in Persian and Hindi on the flyleaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 7b.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and red; rubrication and catchwords. Poetry in two columns separated by double red lines. Margina insect damage and damp staining.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, early 18th century.
• Incipit: مجموع اسرار نهان و عىان بحرىست بحر محىط لا محدود نامتناهى ىعنى بر هم که آن بى نام را بر هم مى نامند

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On verso of second flyleaf, owner's note dated 2 Rabīʻ I 1139 H [28 October 1726]. Small owner's stamp on leaf 1b. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 145

Other title(s)

• Sirr al-asrār.
• سر الاسرار.
• Sirr-i akbar.
• سر اکبر.

OCLC

847754133

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