Collection of incomplete Persian texts on a variety of subjects.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1. On spine: Label reading "As tālīfāt-i Imām Aḥmad Ghazzālī raḥmat Allāh ʻalayh" in Arabic script by a later hand.
List of contents on recto of first flyleaf.
Layout: 19 lines per page in one or two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; some insect damage.
Origin: Text 1, 5 Rajab 1101 H [14 April 1690] (leaf 54b). Text 2, 2 Rabīʻ I 1100 H [25 December 1688] (leaf 62b). Remaining texts likely from the late 17th century.
Incipit: [رساله سوانح] در غاىت خسته است همچون مس خسىس که مناسبة بازر اصل ندارد -- [Astronomical treatise] در بىان مطالع بروج قوسى بود از معدل که با قوس از نقطت البروج طلوع کند -- [بداىع الانشاء] زىنت عنوان هر نامۀ نامى و زىور دىباچه هر صحىفه کرامى -- [اسمار الاسرار] سمر ١٨ قوله تعالى ا لم ىعلم بان ىرى فىه اشارة الى مراقبة اين آن مراقبت است تعلىم جبرىل
Explicit: [رساله سوانح] رزقنا الله واياكم مقام الفقراء الريائين بفضله ورحمته والصلوة على رسول محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين تمت هذه الرسالة -- [Astronomical treatise] و اعظم ثوابت مر صوره دوىست و بىست و دو برابر رفىن است و اصغر ثوابت مر صوره بىست و سه برابر رفىن است
Binding note
Half orange leather with marbled paper covers.
Language note
Persian;
Script
Nastaʻlīq.
Contents
1. 162W, leaves 1a-54b: Risālah-i Savāniḥ / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. A treatise on the philosophical and practical aspects of Sufism; incomplete at beginning.
2. 163W, leaves 56a-62b: [Astronomical treatise]. Contains bāb 6-12 of an unidentified treatise on astronomy; with charts.
3. 164W, leaves 64a-88b: [Selections from Dīvān-i Asīr] / Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Mīrzā Muʼmin Asīr Shahristānī. Selections from the author's qaṣāʼid and ghazalīyāt.
4. 165W, leaves 89b-174b: Badāyiʻ al-inshāʼ / Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Yūsufī. Treatise on letter-writing with numerous examples for all occasions; incomplete at end.
5. 166W, leaves 175b-230b: [Selections from Asmār al-asrār] / Bandah Navāz. Theosophical treatise with explanations of Qurʼanic verses and ḥadīths, interspersed with quotations from Sufis and with anecdotes; incomplete at end.
Provenance
On leaf 1a, stamp of ʻUmar ibn Rasūl Khān Vurdī Mayjur, dated 1256 H [1840 or 1841]. On leaf 88a, 88b, stamp of Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh dated 1087 H [1676 or 1677]. On leaf 88b, owner's stamp which has been written over with the date 1076 H [1665 or 1666]. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 90, 31, 47, 120.
Other title(s)
Astronomical treatise.
OCLC
852394163
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