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Or 16429
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- 032-004343809
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100163240411.0x0000da
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- Or 16429
- Title:
- Masnavi, Pir va Javan by Nasira-yi Isfahani
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004343809
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 12 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1800-1899
- Calendar:
- Hijri-shamsi
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Naṣīr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d 1778?,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/26968393
Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Naṣīr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d 1778?,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/26968393 - TEI:
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Oriental Manuscripts
Or 16429
Masnavi, Pir va Javan by Nasira-yi Isfahani
Contents
1 copy of a work by Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Naṣīr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1777 or 1778
A mas̲navī poem, with a mystical flavour, concerning old age and youth. By Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, called Naṣīrā (d. 1191/1777-8). The poem Pīr va javān is also known by three other titles: Bahāriyya, Bahār va Khazān, and Dar ta‘rīf-i bahāriyyāt. Besides being a physician, this versatile author also composed for Karīm Khān Zand a work on chronology called Bīst faṣl or alternatively Ma‘rifat-i taqvīm: see FNKhF I, pp. 248-9.
Of the 29 copies of Pīr va Javān listed in FNKhF IV, pp. 2700-2, the only other one outside Iran is BL Or. 6949, f. 62v-74v. According to Munzavī, loc. cit., there have been a number of printed editions, the earliest being dated 1291/1874-5.
Begins: ‘Shabī ba naw-javānī guft pīrī * kuhan durdī-kashī ṣāfī-z̤amīrī’
Iran. Undated: 13th/19th century.
Shikasta script. 10 lines, written diagonally. Gold and black ruled text frames and columns, and interlinear gilding throughout. Illuminated heading, f. 1v. 12 folios. Off-white paper of medium thickness. 106 x 63 mm.; text area 88 x 44 mm. Dark sea-green limp leather covers faced with a stitched design in wool.
Purchased from Bonhams (19 April 2007, lot 29/1).
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 12 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 106 × 63 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1800-1899 19th century CE Qajar Empire ; IranRecord Sources
Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.Availability
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