Or 14257 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Manuscript comprising six texts, five of which are in Persian and one in Arabic

1. ff 1v-10r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sharḥ-i Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusnà
Title: شرح أسماء الحسنى

Untitled commentary on the meanings of the Divine Names

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 5.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 5.
2. ff 10v-14r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Khavāṣṣ-i Nād ʻAlī
Title: خواص ناد علی

A tract on the benefits of the Shīʻite prayer Nād ʻAlī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 5.
3. ff 14v-23v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

Text in rhyming prose interspersed with verses

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 5.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 5.
4. ff 24v-28v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Dar sharḥ va Khavāṣṣ-i bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm
Title: در شرح و خواص بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

On the meaning and talismanic qualities of the basmalah, Sūras al-Fātiḥa (1) and al-Muzzamil (73); and of some prayers

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 6.

Language(s): In Arabic with interlinear Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 5.
5. ff 29r-31r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Munājāt
Title: مناجات

The preface, in Persian, claims that these texts were transmitted from each Imām to the next down to Imām Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq, 702?-765 or 6

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 5.

Language(s): Preface in Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 5.
6. ff 31r-39r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Asnād-i munājāt az barā-ʼi bar āmadan-i ḥājāt
Title: اسناد مناجات از برای بر آمدن حاجات

Seven traditional prayers and invocations (ḥiṣn) in Persian, each prescribed for particular circumstances

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 6.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 39 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 19 × 14 cm.

History

Origin: 918 AH ; Khurasan, probably Herat

Record Sources

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

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