Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 11946 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Bayān-i ḥaqā’iq-i aḥvāl-i Sayyid al-Mursalīn by Jamālī Ardistānī

A large mas̲navī, with many interspersed prose passages, on the life of the Prophet

It is divided into seven parts – Miṣbāḥ al-arvāḥ مصباح الارواح Aḥkām al-muḥibbīn احکام المحبین Nihāyat al-ḥikmat نهایة الحکمة Bidāyat al-ma‘rifat بدایة المعرفة Fatḥ al-abvāb فتح الابواب Kashf al-arvāḥ کشف الارواح

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Meredith-Owens 1968, page 74.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 326 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 29.8 × 20 cm.

History

Origin: 18th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

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