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Delhi Persian 1208
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- 032-003451856
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- Delhi Persian 1208
- Title:
- Works by ʿUbayd Zākānī, 12 items (a-l)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 130 ff. (+4)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1650
- Date Range:
- 1550-1650
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
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- CE
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- Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Ḥāfiẓ, fl 14th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123418061,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56731778
Muḥammad, Prophet
Muḥammad, Prophet
Plato, 427 BC-347 BC
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
‘Ubayd-i Zākānī, d 1370?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118674159,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/311227306
‘Ubayd-i Zākānī, d 1370?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118674159,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/311227306 - Subjects:
- Masnavis, Persian
Persian poetry--747-1500
Satire, Persian
Short stories, Persian - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1208
Works by ʿUbayd Zākānī, 12 items (a-l)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Substantial fragment from a large compendious collection of muntakhab or selected humorous and moral poetry and refined prose works by the noted poet and satirist of late Ilkhanid Iran, based at the Muzaffarid court of Shiraz and thus senior contemporary of the famous Shams al-Dīn Ḥāfiẓ, Khvājah ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371), here named Najm al-Dīn, and not, as specified by Rypka, Niẓām al-Dīn. Volume not dated; datable to mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Neat scribal nastaʿlīq. Limited annotations in margins. Stamped and Persian foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding, red half leather IOL covers, dated 8/8/[19]23. Folios bound, occasional lacunae; stains, cropped, warping and cockling, wormholes, later repairs, gauze overlay. Condition fair.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 1v-2vLanguage(s): PersianDelhi Persian 1208a.
Preface by an unnamed compiler introducing a selection of fourteen works by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371), here named Najm al-Dīn, and not, as specified by Rypka, Niẓām al-Dīn.
The present volume contains works numbering less than the quantity of fourteen specified here.
Not dated at end.
Earlier Persian foliation commences at 151.
The flyleaf before the first folio bears the ink transfer in reverse of an inscription found on f. 130v, indicating the latter has been bound in the wrong order.
Title: Risālah dar taqrīr-i dībāchahTitle: رساله در تقرير ديباچه2. ff. 3r-4vDelhi Persian 1208b.
Untitled abridged version of a manqabat to the Prophet Muḥammadin the form of a tarkīb by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian3. ff. 5r-16rDelhi Persian 1208c.
Moralistic treatise in refined prose and poetry by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Risālah-'i rīshTitle: رسالهٴ ريش4. ff. 17r-23rDelhi Persian 1208d.
Collection of two tarjīʿband poems by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Kitāb al-tarjīʿTitle: كتاب التّرجيع5. ff. 23r-41vDelhi Persian 1208e.
Collection of narrative poetic compositions in various forms (mas̲navī, bayt, qiṭʿah, ghazal, rubāʿī) imitating or inspired by the works of other poets, written by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Kitāb-i taz̤mīnātTitle: كتاب تضمينات6. ff. 41v-74vDelhi Persian 1208f.
Collection of moralistic, picaresque, and bawdy tales in refined prose and poetry by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Risālah-'i dilkushāTitle: رسالهٴ دلكشا7. ff. 74v-89rDelhi Persian 1208g.
Mystical treatise compiling responses to the correspondence and anecdotes of contemporary Sufis written by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Risālah-'i qalandarānTitle: رسالهٴ قلندران8. ff. 89r-94vDelhi Persian 1208h.
Treatise on mystical terminology, also known as Risālah-'i taʿrīfāt, intending to acquaint the youth of the day with the pronouncements of former literary and especially Sufi masters, clarifying their use of diction and style, by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Dah faṣlTitle: ده فصل9. ff. 95r-103rDelhi Persian 1208i.
Ethical treatise collecting moral dicta in the form of a vaṣīyator last will and testament attributed to Aflātūnor Plato, who supposedly composed it for the instruction of his student Arisṭūor Aristotle, subsequently translated from the Greek to Persian and appended to the Akhlāq-i Nāṣirīby Khvājah Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, and here restyled by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371), in 750/1349 (here incorrectly written 950/1543).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Ṣad pandTitle: صد پند10. ff. 103v-120vDelhi Persian 1208j.
Treatise on divination based on alphanumerical values devised by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
The work is divided into twelve sections termed bāb, each corresponding to signs of the zodiac.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianTitle: Fāʾl'nāmah-'i burūjTitle: فأل نامهٴ بروج11. ff. 121r-124rDelhi Persian 1208k.
Untitled manual of divination based on a chart (f. 121r) listing the names of common and mythical birds, written in the form of quatrains, attributable to the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianAuthor:12. ff. 124v-129vDelhi Persian 1208(l).
Untitled manual of divination based on a chart (f. 121r) listing the names of common and mythical wild beasts or vuḥūsh, written in the form of quatrains, attributable to the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).
Not dated at end.
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 130 ff. (+4)Dimensions (leaf): 173 × 150 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1550-1650Mid-16th - mid 17th century India or IranProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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