Or 13214 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Volume containing several works

1. ff 1v-54r

Author: ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Niẓām علی بن محمد نظام

Title: Ikhtiṣār-i Kitāb-i Bilawhar va Buyūdisaf

Title: اختصار کتاب بلوهر و بیودسف

An abridgement by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ghaznavī, سراج الدین الغزنوی of the Persian version of the legend of Buddhist origin

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 67.

2. ff 55v-57r

Author: Ulfatī Tabrīzī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, 14th cent. الفتى تبرىزى، حسىن بن احمد

Title: Rashf al-alḥāẓ fī kashf al-alfāẓ

Title: رشف الالحاظ فى کشف الالفاظ

On poetical terms relating to the words ʻāshiq (lover) and maʻshūq (beloved)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 65.

3. ff 57r-72r

Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى

Compiler: Passages selected by ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Niẓām, علی بن محمد نظام

Title: Rashf al-alḥāẓ fī kashf al-alfāẓ

Title: رشف الالحاظ فى کشف الالفاظ

Passages from Niẓāmī’s Khamsah

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 48.

4. ff 72r-77r

Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325 أمير خسرو دهلوى

Compiler: Passages selected by ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Niẓām, علی بن محمد نظام

Title: Multaqaṭāt-i Khamsah-yi Dihlavī

Title: ملتقطات خمسهٌ دهلوى

Passages from Amīr Khusraw’s Khamsah

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 52.

5. ff 72r-77r

Author: Saifuddīn Bākharzī, d. 1260 باخرزى، سيف الدين Bākharzī, Sayf al-Dīn, d. 646/1248

Title: Risālah dar bayān-i Asmā-yi ʻIẓām

Title: رساله در بيان اسماء اعظام

Sufi treatise on the Divine Names

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 8.

6. ff 83r-124v

Author: ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad Niẓām علی بن محمد نصام

Title: Riyāz̤ al-mulūk fī riyāz̤āt al-sulūk

Title: رياض الملوک فی رياضات السلوک

An expanded Persian version of Sulvān al-muṭā‘, سلوان المطاء , the Arabic ethical work by Abū Hāshim Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Maghribī, d. 565/1169-70

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 15.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 124 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 28 × 15 cm.

History

Origin: 801 AH 803 AH Middle East Baghdad Aleppo

Record Sources

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

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