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Or 16620 (2)

Record Id:

033-004251120

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004251118

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100144201503.0x000001

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Or 16620 (2)

Title:

[Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [رسالهٔ سپهسالار]

Scope & Content:

This section (38v-138r) contains the earliest, and one of the most detailed, hagiographies of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (died 672 AH/1273 CE). It was authored by Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār, who was Rūmī’s disciple for up to forty years and wrote the work in the decades after his passing. Written in Persian, the Risāla covers Rūmī’s life, virtues, teachings, and sayings.

Begins:

Ḥamd-i bīḥadd Avḥad-rā jall- jalāluh ki jalāl-i Huviyyat-i Ū az taṣāvīr-i ‘aql mubarrāst Va sanā-yi bī-‘add Ṣamad-rā ‘ammat navāluh ki kamāl-i Ulūhiyyat-i Ū az kayfiyyat-i awhām mu‘arrāst ... Pas ba-sar-i maqṣūd bāz āyam ānchih maqṣūdast sharḥ dihīm Chunīn gūyad aqall al-‘ibād va aṣgharuhum Farīdun bin Aḥhmad al-ma‘rūf bi-Isfahsālār...

Ends:

... bar hama sukkān-i ān bilād rawshan karda va va bī-zay-i ahl-i ṭarīqa va ahl-i faqīr dar āvarda va ba-ḥalaq-i awliyā da‘vat namūda ast Tamm al-risāla Sipahsālār (sic)

The illuminated heading and marginal illumination on 38v and 38v-39r are of excellent quality.

The text is dated 17 Receb 1032 AH/17 May 1623 CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-004251118
033-004251120

Is part of:

Or 16620 : [Manuscript containing two texts related to Mevlana Rumi]

Or 16620 (2) : [Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [رسالهٔ سپهسالار]

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032-004251118[0002]/033-004251120

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Record Type (Level):

SubFonds

Extent:

100 ff (38v-138r)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic (nastaliq Variant)

Start Date:

1623

End Date:

1623

Date Range:

1032

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

Place of Origin:

Turkey

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Good off-white paper. Slight damp staining in margins between ff 92-142

Foliation: European, 100 ff (38v-138r)

Dimensions: 188 x 111 mm. Text area until f 57v: 133 x 58 mm, thereafter 130 x 55 mm

Pricking and Ruling: 15 lines. Red headings and overlinings. Text frames, in black and gold up to f 57v only

Script: Good Ottoman nesta‘lik

Information About Copies:

Manuscripts of this text are rare. Only two outside Turkey are recorded in Storey PL I/2, 935, and none in Önder, Mevlana bibliyografyası, 2:265-8; the latter lists 15 copies; the earliest is dated 887/1482 but most are much later.

Publications:

The following editions are in the holdings of the British Library: Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad Sipahsālār, Risāla-yi Sipahsālār, edited by Saʿīd Nafīsī (Tehran: Iqbāl 1326/[1947-8]); Risāla dar manāqib-i Khudāvandigār, edited by Muḥammad ‘Alī Muwaḥḥid and Ṣamad Muwaḥḥid (Tehran: Kārgāh-i Nashr-i Kārnāma 1391 [2012]); Risāla-yi manḥūl-i Sipahsālār: nuskha-yi gumshuda-yi Mathnawī, edited by Bahrām Bihīzād (Tehran: Rasā 1376 [1997]); Mevlânâ ve etrafindakiler: Risâle-i Sipehsâlâr, translated into Turkish by Tahsin Yazıcı (İstanbul: Tercüman, 1977). Editions were also printed in India (1302 AH/1884-5 CE; Kanpur, 1319 AH/1901 CE). An Ottoman Turkish translation was published in Istanbul 1331 AH/1913 CE.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Subjects:

Sufism--Early works to 1800

Related Material:

On this text and its author, see Muhammad Isa Waley, ‘Farīdūn Sipahsālār on the Death of Mawlānā Rūmī,’ Mawlana Rumi Review 9:1-2 (2020), 52-66. This article includes a partial translation of the text.