Or 5321 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: 14 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, Sufi poetry, Persian literature, Proverbs, Aphorisms and apothegms, and Masnavis
1. 19v-28v ff
Author: Firdawsī فردوسی
Author: Sanā’ī سنائی
Title: Poems

Some of the poems are in Arabic, arranged according to subject headings, e.g. al-mavā‘iz̤ va al-naṣā’iḥ , etcetera, including verses by Sanā’ī and Firdawsī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
2. 31v-36v ff
Title: Risālah li-Mawlānā Taqī al-Millat va al-Dīn
Title: رساله لمولانا تقی الملت و الدین

A Sufic tract

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
3. 57r-59r ff
Title: Risālah-’i Shaykh ibn al-Ḥasan Bustī
Title: رسالۀ شیخ ابن الحسن بستی
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
4. 57r-59r ff
Title: Risālah-’i Āhan va Pūlād
Title: رسالۀ آهان و پولاد
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
5. 83v-85v ff
Title: Min Kalimāt Amīr al-Mu’minīn ‘Alī va al-Laṭā’if Khvājah Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūṣī
Title: من کلمات امیر المؤمنین غلی و لطائف خواجه نصیر الدین طوسی
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
6. 86r-89r ff
Title: Pandnamah-’i Anūshīrvān-i ‘Ādil
Title: پندنامۀ انوشیروان عادل
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
7. 90v-99v ff
Author: Sa‘dī سعدی
Title: Risālah-’i ‘Aql u ‘Ishq
Title: رسالۀ عقل و عشق

Contains a further work entitled Risālah-’i Mu’nis al-‘Ushshāq رسالۀ مؤنس العشاق

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
8. 128r-133r ff
Title: Tarbīyat-i Anūshīrvān-i ‘Ādil
Title: تربیت انوشیروان عادل
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
9. 136v-140v ff
Title: Munsha’āt al-Afāz̤il
Title: منشئات الافاضل

Imperfect at end

The date 797 occurs on 144r and 146r

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
10. 147v-148r ff
Title: Muḥarramnāmah
Title: محرمنامه
Title: Ta’lif-i ḥukamā-yi Rūmī
Title: تألیف حکماء رومی
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
11. 161r-186v ff
Title: Ṣuḥbatnāmah-’i Khvājah ‘Imād-i Faqīh
Title: صحبتنامه جواجه عماد فقیه

A mas̲navī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
12. 188v-192v ff
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī جلال الدین رومی
Title: Ba‘z̤ī az Ash‘ār-i Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Title: بعضی از اشعار مولانا جلال الدین رومی

Dated 829

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
13. 193r-207r ff
Author: Awḥadī, Rukn al-Dīn, 1271 or 2-1337 or 8 اوحدی, رکن الدین
Title: Dahnāmah
Title: دهنامه

A mas̲navī

Dated 829

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.
14. 208v-211v ff
Title: Tarassul
Title: ترسّل
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.89.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 211 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 22.3 × 13 cm.

History

Origin: 14th-15th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

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