IO Islamic 4803 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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A collection of three Persian works

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3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry 747-1500 and Sufi poetry

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 97 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 25 × 14 cm.

Hand(s)

Copyist: Muḥammad Fārūq of Kashmir

Decoration

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Contents

1. ff. 1v-72r
Author: Aḥmad Jām, 1049 or 50-1141 or 2 Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan Jāmī, c. 1049 - c.1142 Zhandah Pīl شیخ الاسلام احمد بن ابی الحسن جامی ژنده پيل احمد جام
Title: Dīvān-i Aḥmad Jāmī
Title: دیوان احمد حامی

The poems of Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan Jāmī called Zhandah Pīl (c. 1049 - c.1142)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 23.

History

Origin: 22 Rab. I 1100 AH

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Contents

2. ff. 74v-84r
Author: Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089 ʻAbd Allāh Anṣarī, d. 481/1088 عبد الله انصارى انصارى الهروى، عبدالله بن محمد
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

The well known collection of invocations in mixed prose and verse (see I.O. Islamic 2339), here called Risālah-ʼi ʻAbd Allāh Anṣārī ( رسالهٌ عبد الله انصاری )

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 23.

History

Origin: 2 Muh. 1100 AH

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Contents

3. ff. 85r-97v
Author: Unknown
Title: Fragment of Munājāt and miscellaneous poems
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 23.

History

Origin: Hijri-qamari AH

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on U. Sims-Williams: Handlist of Islamic manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library 1938-85. London, 1986

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