Or 7243 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: Majmūʻa ( مجموعه ) : a volume containing several works
1. f 1v-3v
Author: Anonymous
Title: ʻIshqnāmah
Title: عشقنامه

Selected couplets from the mas̲navī-ʼi maʻnavī ( مثنوی معنوی ) of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومى

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
2. f 4r-7r
Author: Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247 شمس تبريزى
Title: Marghūb al-qulūb
Title: مرغوب القلوب

A didactic mas̲navī poem on Sufism and ethics

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
3. f 7v-16r
Author: Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550 Ibrāhīm Shāhidī, d. 957/1550-1 شاهدي ابراهيم دده
Title: Gulshan-i vaḥdat
Title: گلشن وحدت

A mystical mas̲navī, mainly in Turkish but including prose passages in Persian

Language(s): Mainly in Turkish with prose in Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
5. f 17v-18v
Author: Various authors
Title: Az guftah-ʼi Shams-i Tabrīzī
Title: از گفتۀ شمس تبریسی

Ghazals misattributed to Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, شمس تبريزى ; some possible by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 جلال الدين رومى

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
8. f 22r-23r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Suʼāl-i Jallā al-Dīn (sic) va javāb-i ʻIzz al-Dīn
Title: سؤال جلا الدین و جواب عز الدین

Questions and answers, in verse, on aspects of Sufism

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
13. f 41v-42r
Author: Various authors
Title: Collection of poems

Poems by Humām, Muḥammad ibn Farīdūn, 1238?-1314 or 15, همام، محمد بن فريدون ; Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3, نظامى گنجوى ; ʻAbd al-Razzāq, عبد الرزاق ; Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, ca. 1126-1198 or 9, خاقانى ، افضل الدين شروانى ; and Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī, Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam, d. ca. 1150, سنايى غزنوى، ابو المجد مجدود ابن آدم

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
18. f 61v-64r
Author: Emir Sultan, 1368 or 9-1429 or 30 Amīr Bukhārī امیر بخادی
Title: Sharḥ-i Qaṣīdah-ʼi Yāftam-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Mawlānā
Title: شرح قصیدۀ يافتم حضرة مولانا

Commentary in Turkish on a poem (actually a ghazal) attributed to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 جلال الدين رومى

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
19. f 64r-68r
Author: Various authors
Title: Collection of poems

Poems in Persian by Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent., ‏حافظ , Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550, شاهدی ابراهيم دده , Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومى , Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, سلطان ولد , Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, شمس تبريزى (attributed), the poem of four half-times by ʻUnṣurī, Abū al-Qāsim Ḥasan, fl. 1009-1041, ‏عنصرى، ابو القاسم حسن , Farrukhī, ʻAlī ibn Jūlūgh, d. 1037 or 8, ‏فرخى ، على بن جولوغ , ʻAsjadī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Manṣūr, d. 1040 or 41, ‏عاسجدی، عبد العزیز بن منصور , Firdawsī, ‏فرداوسى ; and poems by various Turkish poets

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
21. f 69v-70r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Dar bayān-i āfāq-i anfusī-ʼi Ḥaz̤rat-i Mawlānā
Title: در بیان آفاق انفسی حضرت مولانا

A tract on the cosmological symbolism of the planets

Unconnected with Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين رومي، مولانا،

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
23. f 71v-73r
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: Sharḥ-i ghazal-i Ḥāfiẓ
Title: شرح غزل حافظ

Commentary on a ghazal of Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent., ‏حافظ

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
25. f 75r-84r
Author: Various authors
Title: Poems, in Persian, Turkish, or Arabic

The Persian verses are by ʻAyyānī (sic), ‏عيانی , Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent., ‏حافظ ,, Asīrī, ‏اسیری , Jāmī, 1414-1492, جامى , Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 9-1534, ابن كمال باشا , Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, سلطان ولد , Shāhī, ‏شاهى , Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, شمس تبريزى (attributed), Karrāq-i Jangī, ‏کراق جنگی , and several naʼts, unattributed

Language(s): Persian, Turkish and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
30. f 95r
Author: Different authors
Title: Poems in Persian

Poems by Jāmī, 1414-1492, جامى , verses by Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, d. ca. 1670, ‏صائب تبريزي، ميرزا محمد علي , and a rubāʻī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
31. f 95v-96v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Suʼāl va javāb dar bārah-ʼi Ḥadīs̲-i Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan
Title: سعال و جواب در بارۀ حديث کنت کنزن مخفین

A treatise on the saying, often cited as a Ḥadīs̲ Qudsī, ”I was a hidden treasure”

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
34. f 108r
Author: Qāsim al-Anvār Qāsimī قاسم الانوار
Title: Untitled

A ghazal in Persian and some Turkish verses

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
36. f 109v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Untitled

Brief tracts, and an anonymous commentary on a bayt by Jāmī, 1414-1492, جامى

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
43. f 2v-7r (inner margins)
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 رومي جلال الدين محمد بن محمد مولانا
Title: Untitled

Selected verses 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 58.
44. f 7v-17r (inner margins)
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 رومي جلال الدين محمد بن محمد مولانا
Title: Bulbulnāmah
Title: بلبلنامه
Title: Risālah-ʼi bulbulnāmah
Title: رسالۀ بلبلنامه

A Sufi mas̲navī

Incorrectly attributed to ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230, عطار، فريد الدين ,

Main title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 58.

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 58.
46. f 21v-23v (inner margins)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Futuvvatnāmah dar ṭālib-i Ḥaqq
Title: فتوتنامه در طالب حق

A mystical mas̲navī poem

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
47. f 23v-25r (inner margins)
Author: Haravī, Amīr Ḥusaynī هروى، امير حسين
Title: Qalandarnāmah
Title: قلندرنامه

A Sufi mas̲navī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
49. f 26r-35v (inner margins)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Dar bayān-i intikhāb-i Mas̲navī-i Mawlavī
Title: در بیان انتخاب مثنوى مولوی

Selected lines from the Mas̲navī-i maʻnavī ( مثنوى معنوى ) , , of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, رومي جلال الدين محمد بن محمد مولانا , withTurkish commentary

Language(s): Persian with Turkish commentary

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
50. f 36v-47v (inner margins)
Author: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, 1004-ca 1088 ناصر خسرو
Title: Rawshanā’ī nāmah
Title: روشنائینامه

A philosophical mas̲navī poem

Language(s): Persian with Turkish commentary

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
54. f 69v-126r (inner margins)
Author: Shams Maghribī, Muḥammad Shīrīn, 1349?-1406 or 7 شمس مغربى ، محمد شيرين
Title: Dīvān-i Maghribī
Title: دیوان مغربی

Collected lyric poems of Muḥammad Shīrīn Maghribī, d. 809/146-7

Language(s): Turkish and Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
55. f 69v-123r (inner margins)
Author: Shams Maghribī, Muḥammad Shīrīn, 1349?-1406 or 7 شمس مغربى ، محمد شيرين
Title: Dīvān-i Maghribī
Title: دیوان مغربی

Collected lyric poems of Muḥammad Shīrīn Maghribī, d. 809/146-7

Language(s): Turkish and Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 41.
56. f 126v-128r (inner margins)
Author: ʻAbd al-Khāliq Ghujduvānī, d. 617/1220 عبد الخالق غجدوانی
Title: Vaṣāyā-yi Khwāja ʻAbd al-Khāliq Ghujduvānī
Title: وصاياى خواجه عبد الخالق غجدوانی

Counsels on Sufism

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
57. f 128r-141r (inner margins)
Author: Various authors
Title: Untitled

Poems, mainly in Turkish

Persian verses by Jāmī, 1414-1492, جامى , in f. 133r, misattributed verses to Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, شمس تبريزى , in f. 133v, and unattributed in f. 135v

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
59. f 154r-185r (inner margins)
Author: Various authors
Title: Assorted qiṭaʻāt, mufradāt, and ghazals

Some of the poems are in Persian, others in Turkish

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
61. f 197r-219vr (inner margins)
Author: Various authors
Title: Collection of poems

Poems or couplets by Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, سلطان ولد , , Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, d. ca. 1670, ‏صائب تبريزي، ميرزا محمد علي , in f. 198r-199v, a naʻt in f. 200r by Naẓīrī, d. 1613, نظيرى نيشاپوری , misattributed verses to Shams-i Tabrīzī, d. 1247, شمس تبريزى , in f. 200v; and numerous Turkish poets

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.
65. f 197r-219vr (outer margins)
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين
Title: Bī sarnāmah
Title: بی سرنامه

A Sufi mas̲navī formerly attributed, as here, to Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

Language(s): Persian and Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 59.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 220 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 14 cm.

History

Origin: 12th century AH ; Ottoman Empire

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998 and G.M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. Oxford, 1968

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