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Title:
Jami's Nafahat ul-uns
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Record Type (Level):
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366 ff.
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Persian
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Arabic
Start Date:
1528
End Date:
1528
Date Range:
1528
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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
Rafī‘ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Uzghandī
Valī al-Dīn Pāshā
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 16812

Jami's Nafahat ul-uns

Contents

1 copy of Nafaḥāt al-uns by Jāmī, 1414-1492

The renowned compilation of biographical notices of 611 Sufis by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), completed in 881/1476. See Storey PL I/2, pp. 954-59, 1344.

In the present manuscript, an early copy, the text is preceded by a table of contents (f. 1v-6v), the text itself beginning on f. 9v. There are numerous marginal annotations and corrections by the scribe.

Begins: Basmala al-Ḥamd li-Llāh allazī ja‘ala marā’ī qulūb awliyā’ih majālī jamālih va vajhih al-karīm ... va ba‘d Mīgūyad pāy-shikasta-’i zāviya-’i khumūl va kam-nāmī ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Aḥmad al-Jāmī…

Ends: Rubā‘iyyāt (sic) fī l-tārīkh Īn nuskha-’i muqtabas zi anfās-i kirām / kaz vay nafaḥāt al-uns āyad ba-mashām az hijrat-i khayr-i bashar va Fakhr-i anām / dar hashtṣad u hashtād u siyum gasht tamām

Other contents: owners’ inscriptions, etc.; Ottoman seals, inscribed Vaqf-i Valī al-Dīn Pāshā. Folio 7r-v, Iṣṭilāḥāt-i awliyā; 7v, Dar bayān-i Ḥaqīqat-i Muḥammadiyya. Fore-edge title: Nafaḥāt al-uns Fārsī.

Manuscript completed at midday (ẓuhr), Monday 20 Rabī‘ al-ākhir 934/13 January 1528. By Rafī‘ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Uzghandī.

Good nasta‘līq. 19 lines Red headings. Beige laid paper. 366 f. 245-251 x 174-176 mm. Brown leather binding of later date, faced with faded paper with designs resembling wallpaper.

Purchased from Christie’s (8 October 2010, part of Lot 22).

Language(s): Persian
Title: Nafaḥāt al-uns
Title: نفحات الانس
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 عبد الرحمن الجامي

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 366 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 251 × 176 mm.
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Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1528-01-13 Monday 20 Rabīʿ al-ākhir 934 AH; 13 January 1528 CE ; Iran or India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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