Or 4111 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Volume containing several works

1. f 2r
f 3r
Author: Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr, 967-1049 ابو سعيد ابو الخير
Title: Verses from al-Khayr

Verses attributed to Abū Sa‘īd ibn Abī al-Khayr; and lines from the Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī ( مثنوى معنوى ) of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, رومي جلال الدين محمد بن محمد مولانا

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 60.
3. f 5r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two poems

A poem in praise of Bahaüddin Nakşibend, 1317?-1389, also called Bahā‘ al-Dīn Naqshband, ‏بهاء الدين نقشبند، محمد بن محمد , and another apparently by Ghiyās̲ī, غیاسی , in praise of one Ma’ṣūm Valī Allāh, معصوم ولی الله ,

Language(s): Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 60.
4. f 5v
Author: Various authors
Title: Mu‘ammāyāt
Title: معمایات
Title: Mīr Ḥusayn mu’ammà
Title: میر حسین معما

Two verse riddles, attributed to Mīr Sayyid Ḥusayn, ‏میر سید حسین ; and a ghazal by Qaṣṣāb, ‏قصاب

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 60.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 60.
7. f 236r
Author: Author unknown
Title: Du‘ā
Title: دعا

A prayer of tavassul through the Prophet, in rhymed prose

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 60.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 60.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 263 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 13 cm.

History

Origin: about 1191 AH ; Ottoman Empire

Record Sources

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

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