Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Q. 5 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: (1) تعبير خواب منظوم (۲) رساله شیخ عبد الله انصاری، A little MS. of 30 ff. of 15'9 x 9 c. and 12 ll., written in a small, neat ta'liq within gilt borders, undated, but probably of the sixteenth century, bought by me in Constantinople in April, 1910. It contains two separate works, viz.: I (ff. 1-23). An anonymous Persian poem on Oneiromancy, beginning: وقت خواب درست نشستنلازم آمد نخست دانستن آب از بیخ سوی شاخ رود خواب مردم درست و راست بودور سوی بیخ آمد از شاخ آب در چنان فصل راست ناید خواب Ends on f. 23a: هیزم آمد دلیل نمامیناکسی و افترا و بدنامی تخمه را گیر بر ریا برهان توبه از آن ریا قی و غشیان II (ff. 24-28). A Persian prose mystical treatise ascribed in the title to Shaykh Abdullah Ansari, beginning: دل از جان پرسید که اول این کار چیست و ثمره چیست، جان جواب داد الخ Ends without colophon: سپری شد سخن شیخ الاسلام عبد الله انصاری قدس الله روحه

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 30
Dimensions: 15.9 × 9 cm.

Layout

12 lines

Hand(s)

small, neat ta'liq

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

bought by me in Constantinople in April, 1910.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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