Or 14316 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Volume containing several works

1. ff 1r-26r

Author: Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, d. ca. 1320 شبسترى ، محمود بن عبد الكريم

Title: Gulshan-i rāz

Title: گلشن راز

Sufi metaphisical poem

Language(s): Persian

References

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

2. ff 1v-19v (margins)

Author: ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, d. 1289? عراقى، فخر الدىن

Title: Lamaʻāt

Title: لمعات

A Sufi literary treatise on Divine Love

Title has been supplied by 8

Language(s): Persian

References

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

3. ff 20r-32v (margins)

Author: Ḥammūyah, Saʻd al-Dīn, 1190-1251 حموئي‏ ، سعد الدين Ḥammūʼī, Saʻd al-Dīn, d. 650/1253

Title: Favāʼid

Title: Favāyid

Title: فوايد

Writing on esoteric doctrines concerning with the symbolism of letters

This work is dated 0874

Title has been supplied by 8

Language(s): Persian

References

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

4. ff 26v-28v

Author: Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433 قاسم انوار، على بن نصىر

Title: Tarjīʻ-band-i Qāsim al-Anvār

Title: ترجيع بند قاسم الانوار

A stanzaic mystical poem

Title has been supplied by 41

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 41.

5. ff 29r-124v

Compiler: Compilator Anonymous

Title: Intikhāb-i Mas̲navī

Title: انتخاب مثنوی

Selected verses from Mas̲navī-'i Maʻnavī ( مثنوی معنوی ) or Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومى، مولانا arranged as a didactic poem in 78 bāb

Defective: lacking almost all bāb 1

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 50.

6. ff 73v-139v (margins)

Author: Mīr Ḥusaynī Haravī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim, 1272 or 3-ca. 1317 نسفى، عزيز الدين بن محمد

Title: Kanz al-rumūz

Title: کنز الرموز

A didactic work on aspects of ethics and Sufism

With lacunae, and lacking the first and last page

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 9.

7. ff 145r-162v

Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين

Title: Intikhāb-i Manṭiq al-ṭayr

Title: انتخاب منطق الطير

Excerpts from Manṭiq al-ṭayr, ( منطق الطير )

Title has been supplied by 49

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 49.

8. ff 32v-73r (margins)

Author: Nasafī, ʻAzīz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, 13th cent. نسفى، عزيز الدين بن محمد

Title: Mabdaʼ va maʻād

Title: مبدء ومعاد

A Sufi treatise on ontology

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 9.

9. ff 73v-139v (margins)

Author: Mīr Ḥusaynī Haravī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim, 1272 or 3-ca. 1317 نسفى، عزيز الدين بن محمد

Title: Nuzhat al-ārvāḥ

Title: نزهت الارواح

A treatise on Sufi doctrines, partly in verse

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 9.

10. ff 152r-155v (margins)

Author: Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089 أنساري الهروى، عبد الله بن محمد

Title: Munājāt

Title: Ilāhīʹnāmah

Title: مناجات

Title: الهى‌نامه

Selections from the Munājāt. The text opens with the beginning of Anṣarī’s Risālah-'i Dil va Jān ( رسالۀ دل و جان ) and includes passages from Risālah-'i Vāridāt ( رسالۀ واردات )

Title has been supplied by 8

Language(s): Persian

References

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

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 162 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 25 × 16 cm.

History

Origin: 9th century AH ; Iran

Record Sources

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

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