Or 5321 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Miscellany

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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