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Or 13215

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032-004343258
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Or 13215
Title:
Texts including collections of state letters and documents and very brief extracts from works on Sufism, ethics (works 1-3 and 14-17) and history (works 4-13).
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
172 ff
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1599
End Date:
1605
Date Range:
1599-1605
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abū Bishr al-Fārisīī
Anonymous
Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082763458,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90062645
Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082763458,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90062645
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121449235,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98930150
Jāmī, Muʻīn al-Dīn, 14th century
Kamāl Zāviyī
Khvājū-yi Kirmānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī, 1290?-1352?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066911377,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17089446
Malik-i Akhsitān
Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000037589841,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16602675
Samarqandī, Raẓī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khashshāb, 12th century
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
ʻImād Faqīh, ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd, ca. 1291-1371 or 2
Ṣadr, Abū Bakr ibn al-Zakī,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/268218143
Ṣadr, Abū Bakr ibn al-Zakī,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/268218143
Subjects:
Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1447 or 8-1512
Hadith
Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385
Iran History Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736
Islam--Prayers and devotions
Khorezm (Kingdom)
Letter writing, Persian
Love poetry, Persian
Mogul Empire
Persian Poetry
Persian letters
Qarakhanid dynasty, 9th-11th centuries
Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520
Seljuks--History
Shaybanid dynasty
Sufism Early works to 1800
Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 13215

Contents

Summary of Contents: Texts including collections of state letters and documents and very brief extracts from works on Sufism, ethics (works 1-3 and 14-17) and history (works 4-13).
2. f 2r
Author: Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385 همذانی، علی بن محمد
Title: Excerp from Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadhānī (d.786/1385)̄
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.
3. f 3r
Title: Esoteric work on the Prophet and one Ḥadīs̲

An unattributed extract from a work on the esoteric significance of letters in relation to the titles of the Prophet and the first four Caliphs. Together with a Ḥadīs̲ and other dicta in Arabic in praise of particular invocations.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.
4. ff 4v-44v
Author: Abū Bakr Qūnavī, Zakī al-Dīn ابو بکر قونوی ، زکی الدین Ṣadr al-Mutaṭabbib صدر المتطبب
Title: Rawz̤at al-kuttāb va ḥadīqat al-albāb
Title: روضة الكتاب و حدیقة الالباب

The work contains selections from this Inshāʼ compilation; completed in 677/ 1278

Title been supplied by Waley 1998, page 19.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
5. ff 45r-47r
Author: Jāmī, Muʻīn al-Dīn (8th/14th century) جامی، معین الدین
Title: Munshaʼāt
Title: منشأت
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
6. Margins of ff 4v-44r
Title: Letters of early Ottoman Sultans

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 19.

Correspondance mainly concerning relations with Iran

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
7. ff 47v-66r
Title: Letters and farmāns

Material including correspondance between Safavid, Ottoman and Shaybānid rulers, with some farmāns

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
8. ff 67v-97r
Author: Shifāʾī, Mawlānā (d. 1037/1628) شفاعی، مولانا
Title: Selected Munshaʼāt of Mawlānā Shifāʾī
Title: منتخب منشأت مولانا شفاعی
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
9. Margins of ff 66v-93r
Author: Zāviyī, Kamāl زاویی، کمال
Title: Munshaʼāt-i Shaykh Kamāl Zāviyī
Title: منشأت کمال زاویی

Ornate literary letters of Kamāl Zāviyī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
10. ff 97v-111v
Title: Document concerning Safavid, Timurids, Ottomans and Moghuls
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
11. ff 111v-162r
Author: al-Samarqandī, Raẓī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khashshāb, 6th/12th century السمرقندی، رظی الدین احمد بن محمود الخششاب
Title: Munshaʼāt of Raẓī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khashshāb al-Samarqandī
Title: منشأت رظی الدین احمد بن محمود الخششاب السمرقندی

Documents on the history of the Great Seljuks, Khwārazmshāhs and Qarakhānids

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
12. ff 162v-166v
Author: Malik-i Akhsitān ملک اخستان
Title: Letter from Malik-i Akhsitān to ʻImād Faqīh Kirmānī
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
13. margins of ff 104r-108v
margins of ff 109v-110r
margins of ff 145r-145v
Title: Letters to or from Ottoman Sultans Ūrkhān, Salīm I, Bāyazīd II, and two by Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navāʼī
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.
14. ff 167v-169r
Author: Anonymous
Title: An unidentified work on aspects of Sufism
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.
15. ff 170r-170v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Unidentified text on Sufism

Includes a na’t poem

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.
16. ff 171r-171v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 11.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.
17. f 172v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Khiṭāb-i qalandarān va javāb
Title: خطاب قلندران و جواب

Discurse dealing apparently with malāmatī Sufism

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 172 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 17 cm.

History

Origin: from 1008 to 1014 AH ; Probably Ottoman Empire

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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