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Or 15597

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Or 15597
Title:
Munajat
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
8 f.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1582
End Date:
1582
Date Range:
1582
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115614935,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19703891
Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115614935,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19703891
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15597

Munajat

Contents

1 copy of Munājāt by Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089

Author: Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089 انصارى الهروى، عبد الله بن محمد
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

The Munājāt, or intimate discourses with God, also known by the title Ilahī-nāmah, wholly or partly by Khwājah ‘Abd Allāh Anṣārī Haravī (396-481/1006-1088).

The present manuscript is an outstanding calligraphic copied by Mīr ‘Imād al-Ḥasanī. Dated Tabriz (bi-Dār al-salṭanat Tabrīz), 990/1582.

Other contents: 1r, ownership inscriptions, one describing the work as Maqālāt-i Khvājah ‘Abd Allāh Anṣārī on 8 folios, and one dated 1272/1855-6; and seal impressions. 1v, fainter seal impressions.

Title supplied.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 8 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 184 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

Outstanding nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Mīr ‘Imād al-Ḥasanī

Decoration

Text in cloudbands with interlinear gilding throughout. Text frames: black, blue, red, black, gold, black, blue; black, gold, black.

Additions:

Binding

Orange-brown morocco binding of high quality, with gilt embossed medallions and illustrations; doublures light olive green with gilt and blue central medallions with cutout filigree ornament and gold plain and chain-link margin lines.

History

Origin: 1582 990 AH; 1582 CE ; Tabriz

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-04-11

Acquired from Christies sale 11 April 2000, Lot 61

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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