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Or 16268
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- Title:
- Jami's Nafahat ul-uns
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 316 ff.
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1567
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- 1567
- Date Range:
- 1567
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- Hijri-qamari
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- CE
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- Names:
- 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 - TEI:
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Oriental Manuscripts
Or 16268
Jami's Nafahat ul-uns
Contents
1 copy of Nafaḥāt al-uns by Jāmī, 1414-1492
A compilation of notices of more than 550 Muslim saints, arranged alphabetically, completed in 883/1478-9. By the famous Sufi poet and metaphysician Nūr al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī.
For the author and his works, see Rypka et al., HIL pp. 286-8; Browne, LHP III, pp. 507-548; C. Huart and H. Massignon, ‘Djāmī’, EI2 II, pp. 421-2; ‘Alī Aṣghar Ḥikmat, Jāmī, Tehran 1320/1942; Fikrī Saljūqī, Khiyābān, Kabul 1343/1964; A‘lokhon Afsahzod, Ruzgor va osori Abdurrahmoni Jomī, Dushanbe 1980. (817-898/1414-1492), but based upon the Ṭabaqāt of ‘Abd Allāh Anṣārī. This copy contains a large number of annotations in the margins throughout.
On Nafaḥāt al-uns, translations and commentaries, and other manuscripts and printed editions of all these, see Storey, PL I/2, pp. 954. Other BL copies: Add. 7668, Add. 16717, Add. 16718, Add. 23539, Add. 15848, Or. 218, Or. 1362, Or. 5487 and Or. 8198 (both imperfect); and I.O. Islamic 394, 946, 1412, 1597 (defective), 2082, 2160, 3097, and 3118.
Begins: al-Ḥamd li-Llāh allazī ja‘ala marā’ī qulūb awliyā’ih majālī jamāl vajhih al-karīm va alāḥ minhā ‘alà ṣafāyiḥ vujūhihim lavāyiḥ nūrih al-qadīm
Ends: Rubā‘iyya fī tārīkh itmāmih Īn nuskha-’i muqtabas az anfās-i kirām * kazvay nafaḥāt-i ānat āyad ba-mashām / az hijrat-i Khayr-i bashar va Fakhr-i anām * dar hashtṣad va hashtād va sīvum gasht tamām / va l-ḥamd li-Llāh ‘alà l-itmām * va l-ṣalāt ‘alà Khayr al-anām * va ālih al-bararat al-kirām va l-salām
Other contents: f. 1r, 1v-5v, list of contents (mainly names); 6r-v, lines from a masnavī poem by Jamī; 7r, text of a Hadith on a supplication to be made when donning new clothes; and a poem in Ottoman Turkish in praise of Sultan Sulaymān (probably I, Qānūnī); 8r, 10th/16th or 11th/17th century library seal impression; f. 316v, an excerpt from a work by Jāmī’s student ‘Abd al-Ghafūr Lārī (d. 912/1506), headed Tarjuma-’i khuṭba; this is probably from his Ḥāshiya or commentary on Nafaḥāt al-uns (see Storey, loc. cit.).
Copied at Samarkand by ‘Abd al-Jalīl Yārkandī; completed on 9 Ramażān 974/20 March 1567.
Nasta‘līq. 21 lines. Medium beige paper, with waterstaining, mainly in margins, and small wormholes throughout. 316 folios. 272 x 168 mm.; text area 190 x 103 mm. Good contemporary Transoxiana binding, black leather cover faced with red; indistinct seal of binder: Mullā Shukr Allāh Khān (?) Ṣaḥḥāf.
Purchased from A al-Shakri, January 2006
Language(s): PersianTitle: Nafaḥāt al-unsTitle: نفحات الانسPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 316 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 272 × 168 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1567-03-20 9 Ramaz̤ān 974 AH; 20 March 1567 CE Samarqand, Uzbek Empire ; Samarkand, TransoxianaRecord Sources
Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.Availability
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