Or 6444 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: 5 works by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā on the subjects of Islamic poetry, Dialect poetry, and Arabic poetry

1. 1r-8r ff

Title: Bayāz̤

Title: بیاض

Containing poems in Persian and Gorānī dialect consisting of a mas̲navī poem on the Imāms and Orthodox Caliphs

Imperfect at the beginning

Language(s): Persian and Gorānī

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.82.

2. 8v-54v ff

Author: Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā شیخ احمد ابن مصطفی

Title: Gorānī poems including chronograms and muqaṭṭa‘āt

Language(s): Gorānī

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.82.

3. 55r-77r ff

Title: A devotional 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.82.

4. 57r-73v ff

Title: Ghazals of Ḥasan

Title: غزلیات حسن

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.82.

5. 73v–84v ff

Title: Some verses in Arabic

Language(s): Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.75.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 368 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 20.1 × 14.6 cm.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning

History

Origin: 1197-8 AH

Record Sources

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

Availability

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