Or 11363

This volume contains the collected poetry of Qāsim al-Anvār/Kasım el-Envar (lived 757-837 AH/1356-1434 CE). It is comprised of the following parts :

(I) ff 2v-196v : Persian ghazaliyāt ;

(II) ff 197r-208v : Other poems beginning with a tarjīᶜ-band ;

(III) ff 209r-213r : Rubāᶜiyāt ;

(IV) ff 213v-217v : A masnavī preceded by a prose preface, relating to the death of Timur, followed by a poem in the same metrical form on the various degrees of ascetic life ;

(V) ff 217v-237v : Anīs al-ᶜarifīn (انيس العارفين), a Sufi tract in masnavi form, beginning with a prose preface ;

(VI) ff 237v-248r : Risālah-i Amānah (رسالۀ امانه), here called Risālah-i jūd (رسالۀ جود), a Sufi work in prose and verse ;

There are also Ottoman Turkish verses by Kasım el-Envar on ff 155r and 213r.

The text features marginal paintings decorated with floral designs, animals and birds in gold adorning the following five miniatures, which are late 19th-century imitations of the Safavid style:

f 36v : Qāsim al-Anvār before a king ;

f 44v : Poets and a king ;

f 109r : Poet reciting poetry condemning the vanities of the world ;

f 148a : Scene of drinking and festivity ;

f 213r : Two poor men sitting at the threshold of a room.

The text also features two unvans on superior execution on f 1v.

This manuscript was copied by ᶜabdullāh al-Iṣfahānī in 861 AH (1456-57 CE).