IO Islamic 4392 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Four sufi masnavis
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Collection of mystical mas̲navīs
Mas̲navī on the principles of Sufism written by Maḥmūd Shabistarī in response to questions from a correspondent in Khurasan, around 717/1317, identified as Mīr Fakhr al-Sādāt al-Ḥusaynī by the mystic, poet and hagiographer, Jāmī
Not dated
Mas̲navī on philosophical and didactic subjects by the Central Asian poet, Nāsir-i Khusraw, dated circa 440/1049
Not dated
Mas̲navī on ethics according to Sufism by the poet and mystic ʿAṭṭār Nayshāpūrī, master of the poet and mystic Rūmī Balkhī
Copious notes in Turkish on early folios
Not dated
Unidentified mas̲navī by a poet describing himself as a qalandar, taking an unusually strident attitude toward orthodox Islam
Not dated
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