Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 16429 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Masnavi, Pir va Javan by Nasira-yi Isfahani

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1 copy of a work by Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Naṣīr ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1777 or 1778

A mas̲navī poem, with a mystical flavour, concerning old age and youth. By Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Ṭabīb Iṣfahānī, called Naṣīrā (d. 1191/1777-8). The poem Pīr va javān is also known by three other titles: Bahāriyya, Bahār va Khazān, and Dar ta‘rīf-i bahāriyyāt. Besides being a physician, this versatile author also composed for Karīm Khān Zand a work on chronology called Bīst faṣl or alternatively Ma‘rifat-i taqvīm: see FNKhF I, pp. 248-9.

Of the 29 copies of Pīr va Javān listed in FNKhF IV, pp. 2700-2, the only other one outside Iran is BL Or. 6949, f. 62v-74v. According to Munzavī, loc. cit., there have been a number of printed editions, the earliest being dated 1291/1874-5.

Begins: ‘Shabī ba naw-javānī guft pīrī * kuhan durdī-kashī ṣāfī-z̤amīrī’

Iran. Undated: 13th/19th century.

Shikasta script. 10 lines, written diagonally. Gold and black ruled text frames and columns, and interlinear gilding throughout. Illuminated heading, f. 1v. 12 folios. Off-white paper of medium thickness. 106 x 63 mm.; text area 88 x 44 mm. Dark sea-green limp leather covers faced with a stitched design in wool.

Purchased from Bonhams (19 April 2007, lot 29/1).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 12 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 106 × 63 mm.
Dimensions (written):

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History

Origin: 19th century CE Qajar Empire ; Iran

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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