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IO Islamic 3786

Record Id:
032-004341694
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032-004341694
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3786
Title:
Majmu'ah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Anderson Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
87 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1570
End Date:
1630
Date Range:
1570-1630
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abū Maʿshar, 0786?-0886,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121224941,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17355947
Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115614935,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19703891
Iṣfahānī, Jamāl al-Dīn, fl 14th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/235145542615496640502
Iṣfahānī, Jamāl al-Dīn, fl 14th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/235145542615496640502
Mashhadī, Sulṭān ‘Alī,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70819144
Mashhadī, Sulṭān ‘Alī,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70819144
Moses (Biblical leader),
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100646822
Moses (Biblical leader),
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100646822
Muḥammad, Prophet
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,‏ Caliph,‏, 0600?-0661,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,‏ Caliph,‏, 0600?-0661,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Ḥājj
Subjects:
Mogul Empire--Civilization
TEI:

Anderson Collection

IO Islamic 3786

Majmu'ah

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection or majmūʿah of works on religion, ethics, prayers, aphorisms, horology, astronomy, and calligraphy. Fine nastaʿlīq calligraphy and illumination. Not dated. Scribe: Darvīsh Muḥammad Qāsim Shīrāzī. Several ownership seals and inscriptions, some obliterated.
1. ff. 4-23r
Title: Mukālimah-'i Mūsá bā Khudā
Title: مكالمهٔ موسى با خدا

Story of the Prophet Mūsá's dialogue with Allāh on Mount Ṭūr

Illuminated opening (ff. 4v-5r) of superlative quality, but with some damage

Prefixed (ff. 1r-2v) with a later introduction to the manuscript's contents of little value or information, dated 20 April 1846

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 23v-29r
Author: Iṣfahānī, Jamāl al-Dīn جمال الدّين اصفهانى
Title: Tuḥfat al-vuzarāʾ va al-salāṭīn
Title: تحفة الوزرأ و السّلاطين

Maxims and instructions on good governance, as part of the mirror of princes genre

The work is divided into 40 bāb grouped into 8 risālahs, followed by a conclusion or khātimah, which is lacking in this copy

Language(s): Persian
3. ff. 29v-39r
Author:
Title: Ilāhī'nāmah
Title: ‏الهى ‌نامه

Sufi devotional work attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī al-Hiravī, which is distinct from his Munājāt

Illuminated opening (ff. 29v-30r) of superlative quality, but with some damage

Language(s): Persian
4. ff. 39v-44r
Title: ʿAlī maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib
Title: علی مظهر العجائب

Brief treatise by an anonymous author on the Shīʿah tradition explaining the revelation of the Arabic prayer, Duʿāʾ Nādi ʿAlī, by Archangel Jibrāʾīl to the Prophet Muḥammad in battle, enumerating 40 virtues for invocations to ʿAlī, deemed the 'manifestation of marvels'

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 44r-52v
Author: ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Ḥājj على ابن محمود الحاجّ
Title: Nuzhat al-ʿāshiqīn
Title: نزهت العاشقين

Brief manual of ṣūfī teachings

Language(s): Persian
6. ff. 53r-56v
Title: Kunūz al-rumūz
Title: کنوز الرموز

Anonymously compiled collection of the aphorisms of sages, completed before the 1530s

The work is organised into 10 parts, each mentioning 10 points of merit, concluding with a khātimah, lacking in this copy

Language(s): Persian
7. ff. 56v-59r
Author:
Title: Tuḥfat al-suʿadāʾ
Title: تحفة السّعدأ

Religious and ethical council in 40 points

Language(s): Persian
8. ff. 59r-65r
Title: al-Risālat al-mansūbah fī al-asʾilat va al-ajvibah
Title: الرّسالة المنسوبة فى الاسئلة و الاجوبة
Language(s): Persian

Record of ʿAlī's replies to 40 questions raised by the King of Rūm, addressed to the Companions of the Prophet

9. ff. 65v-67v

Anonymous treatise possibly entitled Risālah fī aḥkām al-kavākib al-sabʿah, describing the negative and positive influences of the seven stars

Language(s): Persian
10. ff. 68r-69r
Title: Risālah dar maʿrifat-i awqāt-i sāʿāt-i ayyām-i asābīʿ
Title: رساله در معرفت اوقات ساعات ايّام اسابيع

Essay on hours assigned to each planet over the course of seven days, attributed to Abū Maʿshar Balkhī

Language(s): Persian
11. ff. 69r-72r
Title: Ikhtiyārāt-i qamar dar burūj-i is̲nā ʿashar
Title: اختيارات قمر در بروج اثنا عشر

Tractate in masnavi form on auspicious positions of the moon in relation to the 12 signs of the zodiac, usually attributed to Nāṣir al-Dīn Ṭūsī

Language(s): Persian
12. ff. 72r-74r

Untitled treatise on the interpretation of dreams, with phenomena organised in alphabetical order and omens associated with the same alphabetical letter

Language(s): Persian
13. ff. 74r-87r

Versified manual on the art and impliments of calligraphy, dated 920/1514

Scribe: Darvīsh Muḥammad Qāsim Shīrāzī

Language(s): Persian
Author: Mashhadī, Sulṭān ʿAlī مشهدى، سلطان على
Title: Risālat ādāb al-khaṭṭ
Title: رسالة آداب الخطّ

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 87 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 159 × 86 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1570-1630 16th-17th centuries CE ; Iran and India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/24_f034r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/24_f034r (digital images currently unavailable)

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