Or 13215 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: Texts including collections of state letters and documents and very brief extracts from works on Sufism, ethics (works 1-3 and 14-17) and history (works 4-13).

1. ff 1r-1v

Author: Anonymous

Title: Verses by different authors

Verses by or attributed to, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومى،مولانا , Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, جلال صير الدين طوسي , Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433, قاسم انوار، على بن نصير , and Khwājū Kirmānī Maḥmūd ibn 'Alī, خواجوی كرمانى، محمد ابن علي . Together with verses of Abū Bishr al-Fārisīī, ابو بشر الفارسی and Munājāt, مناجات , in Arabic.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

2. f 2r

Author: Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385 همذانی، علی بن محمد

Title: Excerp from Sayyid ʻAlī Hamadhānī (d.786/1385)̄

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

3. f 3r

Title: Esoteric work on the Prophet and one Ḥadīs̲

An unattributed extract from a work on the esoteric significance of letters in relation to the titles of the Prophet and the first four Caliphs. Together with a Ḥadīs̲ and other dicta in Arabic in praise of particular invocations.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

4. ff 4v-44v

Author: Abū Bakr Qūnavī, Zakī al-Dīn ابو بکر قونوی ، زکی الدین Ṣadr al-Mutaṭabbib صدر المتطبب

Title: Rawz̤at al-kuttāb va ḥadīqat al-albāb

Title: روضة الكتاب و حدیقة الالباب

The work contains selections from this Inshāʼ compilation; completed in 677/ 1278

Title been supplied by Waley 1998, page 19.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

5. ff 45r-47r

Author: Jāmī, Muʻīn al-Dīn (8th/14th century) جامی، معین الدین

Title: Munshaʼāt

Title: منشأت

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

6. Margins of ff 4v-44r

Title: Letters of early Ottoman Sultans

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 19.

Correspondance mainly concerning relations with Iran

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

7. ff 47v-66r

Title: Letters and farmāns

Material including correspondance between Safavid, Ottoman and Shaybānid rulers, with some farmāns

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

8. ff 67v-97r

Author: Shifāʾī, Mawlānā (d. 1037/1628) شفاعی، مولانا

Title: Selected Munshaʼāt of Mawlānā Shifāʾī

Title: منتخب منشأت مولانا شفاعی

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

9. Margins of ff 66v-93r

Author: Zāviyī, Kamāl زاویی، کمال

Title: Munshaʼāt-i Shaykh Kamāl Zāviyī

Title: منشأت کمال زاویی

Ornate literary letters of Kamāl Zāviyī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

10. ff 97v-111v

Title: Document concerning Safavid, Timurids, Ottomans and Moghuls

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

11. ff 111v-162r

Author: al-Samarqandī, Raẓī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khashshāb, 6th/12th century السمرقندی، رظی الدین احمد بن محمود الخششاب

Title: Munshaʼāt of Raẓī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khashshāb al-Samarqandī

Title: منشأت رظی الدین احمد بن محمود الخششاب السمرقندی

Documents on the history of the Great Seljuks, Khwārazmshāhs and Qarakhānids

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

12. ff 162v-166v

Author: Malik-i Akhsitān ملک اخستان

Title: Letter from Malik-i Akhsitān to ʻImād Faqīh Kirmānī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

13. margins of ff 104r-108v

margins of ff 109v-110r

margins of ff 145r-145v

Title: Letters to or from Ottoman Sultans Ūrkhān, Salīm I, Bāyazīd II, and two by Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navāʼī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

14. ff 167v-169r

Author: Anonymous

Title: An unidentified work on aspects of Sufism

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

15. ff 170r-170v

Author: Anonymous

Title: Unidentified text on Sufism

Includes a na’t poem

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

16. ff 171r-171v

Author: Anonymous

Title: Munājāt

Title: مناجات

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 11.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

17. f 172v

Author: Anonymous

Title: Khiṭāb-i qalandarān va javāb

Title: خطاب قلندران و جواب

Discurse dealing apparently with malāmatī Sufism

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 11.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 172 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 17 cm.

History

Origin: from 1008 to 1014 AH ; Probably Ottoman Empire

Record Sources

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

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