Or 16270 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Ten miscellaneous texts
Contents
A collection of treatises on philosophy, Sufism, medicine, astronomy, grammar, etc.
Commentary on a metaphysical treatise, both in Arabic. This is probably Shawāriq al-ilhām, a commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s Tajrīd al-i‘tiqād. By ‘Abd al-Razzāq ‘Alī al-Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661), a student of Mullā Ṣadrā. See EI2 V, pp. 604-5.
Undated.
A defence of the theological soundness of verses by the Sufi poetḤāfiẓ. By Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salīm al-Shīrāzī. Completed 1219/1804-5.
This work is extremely rare: only one other copy is recorded in reference sources.
Manuscript dated 1228/1813.
A treatise on arithmetic, comprising 3 maqālahs.
Part of a treatise on philosophy and aesthetics.
Copied in 1231/1815-16.
Part (or whole) of a tract on epistemology.
Copied in 1231/1815-16.
Mukhtaṣar dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm, the well-known treatise on astronomy and chronology, in 3 faṣls, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī.
Undated; early 13th/19th century.
On recitation of the Qur’ān, partly in verse.
Copied in 1233/1817-18.
Undated: 13th/19th century.
Tract on number tables and figures and their occult properties (khavāṣṣ).
Collection of texts: this mainly comprises, on f. 214v-234r, Anvār-i ḥikmat, on ethics and Sufism, by Yūsufī (FNKhF II/1, pp. 1545-6); also three poems concerned with medical matters and one concerning miserliness.
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Several hands; mainly in small nastaʻlīq of poor quality.
Decoration
Gold-sprinkled endpapers.
Additions: ff. 104r, 138r, 155r, 169r.
Binding
Semi-limp boards, covered with qalamkārī blockprinted cloth.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2006-01-20
Purchased from Mr Shakri, 20/1/2006.
Record Sources
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