Wadh.Minasian 288 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: Tuḥfat al-aḥrār is one of the masnavis of Haft Awrang of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jamī. Its meter, similar to Makhzan al-Asrār of Niẓāmī, is "Muzāḥafāt-i baḥr-i sarīʿ" (Muftaʿilun Muftaʿilun Fāʿilun). It is put in verse in the same style as that book and Maṭlaʿ al-Anvār of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, in twenty articles. The topics are mainly ethical, mystical and educative, in the form of many anecdotes and narratives in every article. It has a preface in prose. In this masnavi, Jāmī has praised Khvājah Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār Naqshbandī, one of the main figures of the Naqshbandi sect. The number of couplets is recorded to be 1800. It has been composed in 886 AH/1481.
Language(s): Persian
Poetry
Title: Tuḥfat al-aḥrār
Title: تحفة الاحرار
Incipit: بسمله، حامدا لمن جعل جنان جنان کل عارف مخزن اسرار کماله و لسانه کل واصف مطلع انوار جماله گنجینهٔ اسرار کمالش مائیم / آیینهٔ انوار جمالش مائیم…
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم / هست صلای سر خوان کریم
Explicit: … مهر نه خاتمهٔ این خطاب / شد رقم خاتم تم الکتاب
References
Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:
- FAW 156
Similar Copies in Other Libraries:
- GIE 1/46
- MAJ 8/435
- NLI 2/522
Similar Copies listed in Other Catalogues:
- ALZ 19/135
- COM 7/535-546
- DEN 2/906
- FAM 4/2706
- FAP 1/1197
Printed editions:
- Tehran, 1378 Shamsī/2000
Physical Description
Support: Oriental paper, natural buff, regular thickness, one size, glossy; some folio edges torn.
Extent: 85 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 18 × 11 cm.
Dimensions (written): 11 × 6 cm.
Condition
Edge mending and rebinding of initial, medial, and final folios; initial folios are newly written.
Layout
12 lines in two columns per page
Hand(s)
Calligraphic cursive Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular
Decoration
Rubricated titles.
Additions: Rectangular stamp on f.85b: … علی … .
Binding
Bright brown leather, 12×19 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only
Condition
Cover detached from the copy
History
Origin: Unknown place of origin; 12-13th century AH; 18-19th century CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.
Record Sources
This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Wadham College (University of Oxford)
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