Details

Subject(s)

• Muslim saints—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufis—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A biographical dictionary of Sufi saints from the 11th century Hijrī down to the author's time. Table of contents on leaves 391b-397a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold; rubrication, catchwords, and marginal notes. Text block has been trimmed. Foliation in Arabic script indicates that first ten leaves of orginal manuscript are missing; leaves 1-8 are replacements. Lacuna of four leaves after leaf 162. Extensive damp staining and paper repairs; mild insect damage. Part of the lower edge moldered.
• Origin: 962 H [1554 or 1555], by ʻUs̲mān al-Rawz̤ī [?] at the behest of Niẓām al-Dīn Amīr Ibrāhīm (leaf 389b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل مرائى قلوب ...اما بعد ميگويد پاىء شكسته زاويه خمول [وكم نامى عبد] الرحمن ابن احمد الجامى

Binding note

Full maroon leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces and gold-tooled fillets.

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., 103

Other title(s)

• Nafaḥāt-i Mawlavī Jāmī
• نفحات مولوى جامى

OCLC

847843646

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