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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Ghanīmat, Muḥammad Akram, active 1685-1696. Poems. Selections. Panjabi [Browse]
• غنىمت، محمد اکرم، active 1685-1696. نىرنگ عشق. [Browse]
• Rifʻat, Ghulām Jīlānī, -1819 or 1820. Durr-i manẓūm. Selections. [Browse]
• رفعت، غلام جىلانى، -1819 or 1820. در منظوم. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Persian poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.
• On front cover: Label reading "Mas̲navī-i Ghanīmat" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 13-18 lines per page, in two columns; written in indifferent nastaʻliq in black on heavy, tan, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Text 1 foliated in Arabic script; last two leaves blank. Edges roughly trimmed. A few paper repairs; mild staining and insect damage.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1234 H [9 September 1819] (leaf 46a). Text 2 likely copied around the same time.
• Incipit (text 1): بنام شاهد نازک خىالان * عزىز خاطر آشفته حالان
• Incipit (text 2): شبى دلکشاتر ز صبح وصال * بروى زمان جلوه آراى خال
• Incipit (text 3): دلاساز تجد ىد بىان خوىش * جز آن خوش شماىل جان خوىش

Binding note

Quarter leather with paper covers.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq.

Contents

• 1. 141W, leaves 1b-46b: Nayrang-i ʻishq / Ghanīmat. The love story of Shāhid and ʻAzīz; title from colophon on leaf 46a. In the second colophon on leaf 46b, it is explained that this poem was written at the request of the poet's friend ʻAzīz Khān, son of Nawwāb Karam Khān.
• 2. 142W, leaves 49b-58b: Miʻrājʹnāmah / Ghulām Jīlānī Rifʻat. Poetic description of the Prophet's night journey, taken from the Durr-i manẓūm; title from leaf 49b.
• 3. 142W, leaves 59a-63a: Ḥilyah-i sharīfah / Ghulām Jīlānī Rifʻat. Poetic description of the Prophet's character and appearance, taken from the Durr-i manẓūm; title from leaf 49b.
• 4. leaf 63b: [Opening leaf of a prose text on the Prophet].
• 5. leaves 64a-66b: [Verses in Persian and Urdu].

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 35, 59

Other title(s)

• Mas̲navī-yi Ghanīmat, va, Miʻrājʹnāmah, va, Ḥilyah-i sharīfah manẓūm
• مثنوىى غنىمت، و، معراج‌نامه، و، حلىه شرىفه منظوم
• Mas̲navī-i Ghanīmat.
• مثنوى غنىمت.
• Miʻrājʹnāmah.
• معراج‌نامه.
• Ḥilyah-i sharīfah.
• حلىه شرىفه.

OCLC

851585339

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