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Delhi Persian 1182

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Delhi Persian 1182
Title:
A volume containing different works
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Oriental Manuscripts
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India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
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228 ff
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Names:
Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr, 0967-1049,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122084274,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/5721767
Abū Razīn al-ʼĀqailī
Anonymous
Dihlavī, Amīr Khusraw, 1253?-1325,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000101240717,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76503034
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121449235,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98930150
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, 1414-1492,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121431529,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90042997
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, 1414-1492,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121431529,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90042997
Khvājah Muḥammad Pārsā, 1338?-1420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000408089716,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65292796
Khvājagī al-Ḥājī
Khvājah Baha’ al-Dīn Naqshband
Ḥakīm al-Dīn al-Mutaṭabbib
Subjects:
Amulets (Islam)
Koran
Koranic recitations
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Persian poetry
Persian poetry 747-1500
Poetry Collections
Qasidas, Persian
Shahada
Sufi poetry, Persian
Sufism
Sufism Doctrines Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1182

A volume containing different works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 16 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, Qasidas, Sufism Doctrines Early works to 1800, Persian poetry 747-1500, Poetry Collections, Sufism, Sufi poetry, Shahada, Koranic recitations, Amulets, Magic, and Koran
1. ff. 1v-3r
Author: Unknown
Title: A Sufi tract

A brief dissertation dealing with the nature of God and the significance of the terms ‘separation’ and ‘unity’

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
2. ff. 3r-8v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Sukhanān-i Muḥammad Pārsā
Title: سخنان محمد پارسا

Extracts from the Anfās qudsīyah of Muḥammad Pārsā al-Bukhārī, d. 822/1420, محمد پارسا البخاری

A guide to novices on the Ṣūfī path and a book of counsel to initiates, originally compiled out of the sayings of Khvājah Baha’ al-Dīn Naqshband

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
3. ff. 8v-29v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Lavāʼiḥ
Title: لوائح

The well known Ṣūfī miscellany of Jāmī

Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 1083b (British Library).
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
5. ff. 30v-81r
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Javāmiʻ fī sharḥ-i al-qaṣīdat al-mīmīyat
Title: جوامع فی شرح القصیدة المیمیة

The commentary Jāmī

Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 1068a (British Library).
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
6. ff. 81r-102r
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Naẓm durar
Title: نظم درر

A commentary in Persian on the Qaṣīdah al-tāʼīyat ( قصيدة التائية of ʻUmar ibn al-Fārid

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
9. ff. 105v-110r
Author: Ḥakīm al-Dīn al-Mutaṭabbib حکیم الدین المتطبب
Title: Untitled

An essay sets out to elucidate some of the problems attaching to the concept of ‘unity’ raised in the Rubāʻīyāt and other parts of the work of Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr, 967-1049, ابو سعيد ابو الخير

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
10. ff. 110v-147v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Sharḥ-i Rubāʻīyāt-i Mullā Jāmī
Title: شرح رباعيات ملا حامى
Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 1054k (British Library).
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
11. ff. 146r-147v
Author: Unknown
Title: Risālah-’i ḥūsh dar dam
Title: رسالۀ حوش در دم
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
12. ff. 150v-155v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Nai nāmah
Title: نی نامه

A commentary in mixed prose and verse on the famous opening lines of the Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī ( مثنوى معنوى ) of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومی، مولانا

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
13. ff. 156r-158v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Untitled

A commentary upon the ḥadīs̲ reported by Abū Razīn al-ʼĀqailī oncerning the place of God's presence before the creation of the universe

The answer supplied to the problem is given in terms of Ṣūfī allegory

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
14. ff. 157v-160r
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Sharḥ bayt-i Amīr Khusraw
Title: شرح بیت امیر خسرو

A Ṣūfī commentary in prose and verse on a bayt attributed to Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, امير حسرو دهلوى

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
15. ff. 160r-160v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى Attributed, the author is not mentioned in the manuscript
Title: Untitled

An essay, in prose and verse, containing an allegorical interpretation of the letters of the Muslim credo "لا إله إلا الله"

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
16. ff. 160v-164v
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 Mullā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, d. 898/1492-3 ملا عبد الرحمن جامى حامى
Title: Risālah-ʼi sar rishtah
Title: رسالهٌ سر رشته
Title: Untitled
Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 1177c (British Library)., Delhi Persian 1179c (British Library)., Delhi Persian 1180g (British Library).
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
18. ff. 167r-173r
Author: Unknown
Title: Untitled

A work on the talismanic virtues of the different sūrahs of the Qurʼān , as related by the Imām Jaʻfar al-Ïādiq

This work is dated Zuʼl-Q 1016

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
19. ff. 173
Author: Unknown
Title: Khavāṣṣ-i Sūrah-i Yūsuf
Title: خواص سوره یوسف

A list of seventeen benefits resulting from the reading of Sūrah 12, followed by a tradition relating to the same subject

This work is dated circa middle of Zuʼl-Q 1016, the date of Delhi Persian 1182f (British Library). (f 101v)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .
20. ff. 173v-175v
Author: Unknown
Title: Untitled

On the talismanic virtues of certain Qurʼānic and other phrases and passages

This work is dated circa middle of Zuʼl-Q 1016, the date of Delhi Persian 1182f (British Library). (f 101v)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 228 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 19.5 × 12.5 in.

Hand(s)

Some works in Taʻlīq nd others in nastaʻliq

Work 1, 18, 19 and 20 copied by Khvājagī al-Ḥājī, خواحگی الحاجی

Decoration

diagram on f 175r

Binding

European 20th century binding, with plain red leather

History

Origin: 17th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Arberry, Levy and Storey: Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 3. (Unpublished)

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