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IO Islamic 4392

Record Id:
032-004341959
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341959
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4392
Title:
Four sufi masnavis
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
97 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Nāṣir-i Khusraw, 1004-1088?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045302425X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65282887
Nāṣir-i Khusraw, 1004-1088?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045302425X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65282887
Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, d 1320?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000107750259,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/107030610
Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, d 1320?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000107750259,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/107030610
ʿAṭṭár, Farīd al-Dīn, d 1230
Subjects:
Sufi poetry, Persian
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4392

Four sufi masnavis

Contents

Collection of mystical mas̲navīs

1. ff. 1-45r
Author: Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm شبستری، محمود ابن عبد الكريم
Title: Gulshan-i rāz
Title: گلشن راز

Mas̲navī on the principles of Sufism written by Maḥmūd Shabistarī in response to questions from a correspondent in Khurasan, around 717/1317, identified as Mīr Fakhr al-Sādāt al-Ḥusaynī by the mystic, poet and hagiographer, Jāmī

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 48v-56v
Author: Nāṣir ibn Khusraw ناصر ابن خسرو
Title: Rawshanāʾī'nāmah
Title: روشنائی نامه

Mas̲navī on philosophical and didactic subjects by the Central Asian poet, Nāsir-i Khusraw, dated circa 440/1049

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
3. ff. 58v-94
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn عطار، فريد الدين
Title: Pand'nāmah
Title: پند نامه

Mas̲navī on ethics according to Sufism by the poet and mystic ʿAṭṭār Nayshāpūrī, master of the poet and mystic Rūmī Balkhī

Copious notes in Turkish on early folios

Not dated

Language(s): Persian & Turkish
4. ff. 95-97

Unidentified mas̲navī by a poet describing himself as a qalandar, taking an unusually strident attitude toward orthodox Islam

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 97 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 172 × 124 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century CE ; 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 E207/18_f075r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/18_f075r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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