Or 13045 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: Volume containing several works called Majmū‘at al-ṣanāyi‘, مجموعة الصنايع
1. ff 1r-7r (and endpapers)
Author: Various authors
Title: Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

The authors of Persian verses, where named are Ṭālib, طالب , ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad, 1555 or 6-1590 or 91, عرفى شيرازى and Shifāʼī, شفائي

Language(s): Turkish and Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 57.
2. ff 1v-2r (margins)
Author: ʻFattāḥī, d. ca. 1448 Muḥammad Yaḥyà Sībak, d. 852/1448-9 محمد يحيى سیبک فتاحی
Title: Shabistān-i nukāt
Title: شبستان نکات
Title: Shabistān-i khayāl
Title: شبستان خیال

Literary conceits, in prose and verse

This copy contains only the very beginning of the text

Main title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 66.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 66.
3. ff 7r-31r
Author: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661 علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة Wrong attribution Dated about 977
Title: Ṣad kalimah
Title: صد کلمه

Min ikhtiyārāt kalām Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī

Sayings attributed to the Caliph and Imam ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭalib

Language(s): Arabic with interlineary Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 3.
4. ff 31v-35r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Chihil Ḥadīs̲
Title: چهل حديث

Forty traditions related to the Prophet Muḥammad, with Persian renderings in verse and preface in prose

Dated about 937

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 2.
5. ff 35v-38r
Author: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661 علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة Wrong attribution
Title: Ghurar va durar
Title: غرر و درر

Min ikhtiyārāt kalām Amīr al-Muʼminīn ʻAlī

Sayings in verse attributed to the Caliph and Imam ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭalib

Dated about 977

Language(s): Arabic with metrical Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 3.
6. ff 38v-44r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Vaṣiyyat-i Imām ʻAlī
Title: وصیة امام علی

Counsel given by ʻAlī to his son al-Ḥusayn

Dated about 977

Language(s): Arabic with Persian metrical renderings

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 3.
8. ff 47r-57r
Author: Various authors
Title: Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

Miscellany containing hints (some in Arabic) on identifying names, the finder of a ring, and the day of the new moon; Arabic verses attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661, علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة , ; chronograms, some associated with the Panj ganj ( پنج گنج ) , of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325, امير حسرو دهلوى , one with Jāmī, 1414-1492, جامى , and others with Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520, سليم‏ , and other Ottoman notables; qiṭaʼāt; numerous ghazals (some in Ottoman) by Jalīlī; and three rebāʻīs and a fard

Language(s): Persian, Turkish abd Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 57.
9. ff 57v-54v
Author: Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī, Ḥāmid ibn Abī al-Fakhr, d. 1237 or 8 اوحدالدين كرمانى، حامد بن ابى الفخر
Title: Tarjīʻāt-i Awḥad al-Dīn-i Kirmānī
Title: ترجیعات اوحد الدین کرمانی

A tarjīʻ poem in 21 stanzas attributed to Awḥad al-Dīn-i Kirmānī, d. 697/1298

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 40.
10. ff 64v-85r
Author: Various authors
Title: Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

Miscellaneous verses in Persian or Turkish

Miscellany containing poems by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومي، مولانا، , Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, سلطان ولد , Hamadanī, Sayyid Ḥusain, همدانى، سيّد حسين , Naʼīmī, نعمى , Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431, نعمة الله ڤلي , Nasīmī, d. 796/1394, نسيمی , Qāsim al-Anvār, قاسم الانوار , and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, صلاح الدین , and in Turkish

Language(s): Persian abd Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 57.
11. ff 85v-106r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Lamaʻāt
Title: لمعات

Dated about 937

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 8.
12. ff 106v-107v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Faqrnāmah
Title: فقرنامه

A brief tract on some principles of Sufism

Dated about 937

Language(s): Arabic with Persian verses

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 10.
13. ff 108v-114v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah dar bayān-i faqr
Title: رساله در بیان فقر

An untitled text on faqr or poverty in the spiritual sense

Preceeded by two ghazals by one Shaykh Muḥammad and followed by two rubāʻīs

Dated about 937

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 10.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 10.
14. ff 115v-122r
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 أبو حامد الغزالی
Title: Risālah min al adab
Title: رساله من الأدب

Apparently an extract from Zād-i ākhirat ( زاد آخرت ) , a treatise on ethics and spirituality here attributed to Ghazzālī, 1058-1111>

Dated 938

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 10.
15. ff 122v-134r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sulūknāmah
Title: سلوکنامه

A text on three types of traveller on the Sufi Path, and ten principles of Sufism

Dated 938

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 10.
16. ff 136v-155r
Author: Lâmiî Çelebi, 1472-1532 Maḥmūd ibn ʻUs̲mān Lāmiʻī, d. 938/1535 لامعى چلبى
Title: Risālah min al-ʻarūz̤
Title: رساله من العروض

A treatise on prosody

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 65.
17. ff 157v-162r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Manāqib Manṣūr Ḥallāj min al-taṣavvuf
Title: مناقب منصور حلاج من التصوف

A collection of anecdotes about the controversial Sufi al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj, d. 309/922, حلاج، الحسين ابن منصور

With amendments in pencil

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 57.
18. ff 162v-166r
Author: Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089 أنساري الهروى، عبد الله بن محمد
Title: Risālah dar taṣavvuf
Title: رساله در تصوف
Title: Risālah li-l Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣarī
Title: رسالۀ لشيخ عبد الله أنساري

A tract on Sufism partly in verse, here attributed to ʻAbd Allāh Anṣārī

Dated 937

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, pages 10-11.
21. ff 173v-181r
Author: Kātibī Turshī̄zī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. ca. 1434 كاتبی نيشاپوری
Title: Rubāʻiyyāt-i Kātibī
Title: رباعیات کاتبی
Title: Dar khātimah-ʼi kitāb… Kātibī-rāst
Title: در خاتمۀ کتاب ... کاتبی راست

Poems, almost entirely rubāʻiyyāt, from the Dīvān-i Kātibī, ديوان كاتبی

Dated 937

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 41.
22. ff 181v-190r
Author: Naṣr Allāh نصر الله
Title: Mas̲navī
Title: مثنوی

Part or the whole of an unidentified Sufi didactic poem

Followed by a few dū-baytīs and fards

Dated 937

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 53.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 53.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 190 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 18 × 11 cm.

History

Origin: 16th to 18th century CE about 977 AH about 937 AH 938 AH 937 AH about 937 AH ; Ottoman Empire (?) ; Istanbul

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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