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RSPA 50

Record Id:
032-004380770
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004380770
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100169708454.0x000067
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 50
Title:
Part of Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-004380770
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-004380770
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.ii+59+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
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
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 50

Contents

Part of Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1r-59v
Title: Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār
Title: تحفة الاحرار
Author: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī عبد الرحمن جامی
Incipit: مطلع الانوار مورد بدائع لفظی ومعنوی
Explicit: حرف کنار وجو بکلک هوس *** نفطه ز بر جای هد جون کس

This copy is highly defective. Missing several folio at beginning and end. Begins in the middle of prose preface and ends in the middle of Maqālah 12.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Very thin brown woven paper on yellow card.
Extent: ff.ii+59+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

The manuscript has sustained a lot of damage and has been extensively repaired.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 15

Hand(s)

Black ink nastaʿlīq with gilded subheadings written in thuluth script.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. This manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 43 no. L

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