Delhi Persian 1208 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1208a.

Preface by an unnamed compiler introducing a selection of fourteen works by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371), here named Najm al-Dīn, and not, as specified by Rypka, Niẓām al-Dīn.

The present volume contains works numbering less than the quantity of fourteen specified here.

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Earlier Persian foliation commences at 151.

The flyleaf before the first folio bears the ink transfer in reverse of an inscription found on f. 130v, indicating the latter has been bound in the wrong order.

Delhi Persian 1208b.

Untitled abridged version of a manqabat to the Prophet Muḥammadin the form of a tarkīb by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208c.

Moralistic treatise in refined prose and poetry by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī(d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208d.

Collection of two tarjīʿband poems by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208e.

Collection of narrative poetic compositions in various forms (mas̲navī, bayt, qiṭʿah, ghazal, rubāʿī) imitating or inspired by the works of other poets, written by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208f.

Collection of moralistic, picaresque, and bawdy tales in refined prose and poetry by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208g.

Mystical treatise compiling responses to the correspondence and anecdotes of contemporary Sufis written by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208h.

Treatise on mystical terminology, also known as Risālah-'i taʿrīfāt, intending to acquaint the youth of the day with the pronouncements of former literary and especially Sufi masters, clarifying their use of diction and style, by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208i.

Ethical treatise collecting moral dicta in the form of a vaṣīyator last will and testament attributed to Aflātūnor Plato, who supposedly composed it for the instruction of his student Arisṭūor Aristotle, subsequently translated from the Greek to Persian and appended to the Akhlāq-i Nāṣirīby Khvājah Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, and here restyled by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371), in 750/1349 (here incorrectly written 950/1543).

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Delhi Persian 1208j.  

Treatise on divination based on alphanumerical values devised by the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

The work is divided into twelve sections termed bāb, each corresponding to signs of the zodiac.

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Delhi Persian 1208k.  

Untitled manual of divination based on a chart (f. 121r) listing the names of common and mythical birds, written in the form of quatrains, attributable to the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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Delhi Persian 1208(l).  

Untitled manual of divination based on a chart (f. 121r) listing the names of common and mythical wild beasts or vuḥūsh, written in the form of quatrains, attributable to the poet and satirist of Muzaffarid Shiraz, ʿUbayd Zākānī (d. 772/1371).

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