IO Islamic 4582 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

A volume containing several separate works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry 747-1500, Persian poetry 1500-1796, Sufi poetry, and Ghazals

1. ff. 2-46

Author: Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089 انصارىعبدالله ʻAbd Allāh Anṣarī انصارى الهروى، عبدالله بن محمد

Title: Munājāt

Title: مناجات

An extremely inflated copy of the so-called Munājāt of ʻAbd Allāh Anṣarī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 371.

2. ff. 47-82a

Author and Bibliographic antecedent: Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, d. ca. 1320 Maḥmūd Shabistarī, d. 720/1320 محمود شبسترى شبسترى ، محمود بن عبد الكريم

Title: Gulshan-i rāz

Title: گلشن راز

The well-known mystical poem of Maḥmūd Shabistarī, d. 720/1320 (d. 720/1320)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 371.

3. ff. 82b-112a

Author: Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī, Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam, d. ca. 1150 Sanāʼī, d. 545/1150 سنايى سنايى غزنوى، ابو المجد مجدود ابن آدم

Title: Ṭarīq al-taḥqīq

Title: طرىق التحقىق

A Sufi poem by Sanāʼī, d. 545/1150

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 371.

4. ff. 112b-123a

Author: ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀmilī "Bahāʼī", d. 1030/1621 بهاء الدين عاملى بهائى عاملى، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين

Title: Nān va ḥalvā

Title: نان و حلوا

An allegorical poem by Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀmilī "Bahāʼī", d. 1030/1621

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 371.

5. ff. 123b-127b (line 3)

Author: ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621 Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀmilī "Bahāʼī", d. 1030/1621 بهاء الدين عاملى بهائى عاملى، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين

Title: Shīr va shakar

Title: شیر و شکر

An allegorical poem by Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀmilī "Bahāʼī", d. 1030/1621

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 371.

6. ff. 127b(line 4)-134b (line 10)

Author: Omar Khayyam ʻUmar Khaiyām عمر خیٌام عمر الخيام

Title: Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar-i Khaiyām

Title: رباعیات عمر خیٌام

A collection of 107 Rubāʻīyāt ascribed to ʻUmar Khaiyām

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 371-2.

7. ff. 134b(line 11)-139a (line 2)

Author: Bābā-Ṭāhir, 11th cent. بابا طاهر

Title: Rubāʻīyāt-i Bābā Ṭāhir

Title: رباعیات بابا طاهر

A collection of the dū-baitī of Bābā-Ṭāhir, 11th cent.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 372.

8. ff. 139a (lines 3-15)

Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 Ibn Sīnā ابن سينا

Title: Ghazal

Title: غزل

A Persian ghazal ascribed to Ibn Sīnā, with the takhalluṣ Bū ʻAlī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 372.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 139 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 8.4 × 5.5 in.

Dimensions (written): 5.8

Hand(s)

Fair Persian nastaʿlīq

Written for Mīrzā, Muḥammad Bāqir Ḥakim, میرزا، حكيم محمد باقر by by Muḥammad Kāẓim b. Muḥammad "Nāẓim", محمد كاظم بن محمد ناظم

Decoration

Headings in red, green, and blue

History

Origin: 8 Shauwāl 1274 AH

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by the Library of the India Office to A. J. Arberry in 1937

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

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