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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

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامی، ۱۴۱۴-۱۴۹۲ Jāmī, Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Aḥmad, 1414-1493 جامی، نورالدین عبدالرحمن بن احمد، ۸۱۷-۸۹۸ق/۱۴۱۴-۱۴۹۳
Title: Tuḥfat al-aḥrār
Title: تحفة الاحرار
Incipit: || … بر کفش از عقل نهاده چراغ / داده ز هر شمع و چراغش فراغ (about 100 initial couplets are missing)
Explicit: … نقطه‌هایش نه به قانون حساب / خارج از دایره صدق و صواب ||

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

  • FAW 157

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

Form: codex
Support: Western paper (plain), natural buff, thin, one size, glossy; quadruple ruling (gilt, azure, black and green); gilt, azure, and cinnabar titles.
Extent: 114 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 18.5 × 11.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 13 × 7.5 cm.

Condition

Edge mending and rebinding of initial, medial, and final folios

Layout

14 lines in two columns per page, ruled

Hand(s)

Graceful Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular

Additions: Oval stamp on f.1a: شعاع .

Binding

Black leather, 12.5×19.5 cm, front + back cover, single layer of leather only; no pasteboard

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 13th century AH; 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)

Key to Abbreviations

  • ALZ: (الذریعه)
  • COM: (فهرست مشترک نسخه‌های خطی فارسی)
  • DEN: (فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران - دنا)
  • FAM: (فهرست نسخه‌های خطی فارسی)
  • FAP: (فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی فارسی)
  • FAW: (Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford - Minasian Collection)
  • GIE: (Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Manuscripts)
  • MAJ: (Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly)
  • NLI: (National Library of Iran)

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