Or 7477 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: 2 works by Navāʼī, ʻAlī Shīr (d. 906/1501) on the subjects of Love poetry, Sufism Early works to 1800, Persian poetry, Persian letters, and Turkey
1. ff 1r-6r
53r
54v-55r
73v
90r
130
171r
242v
246r-v
248r-250r
Compiler: Anonymous
Title: Majmūʻah
Title: مجموعه

Consisting chiefly of poems, in Turkish, Arabic, or Persian.

Language(s): Persian, Turkish and Arabic
on f. 1r
f. 2v
f. 39v
f. 90r
f. 171r
f. 249v
Title: Unattributed verses in Persian
on f. 1r -
on f. 90r
Title: Poems by Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, d. ca. 1670, صائب تبريزي، ميرزا محمد علي
on f. 3r -
Title: Poems by Saʿdī, سعدی
on f. 4v -
Title: Poems by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325, امير حسرو دهلوى, Firdawsī, فردوسی, and Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī, Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam, d. ca. 1150, سنائی الغزنوی، ابو المجد مجدود بن آدم, from his Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah, ( حديقة الحقيقة )
on f. 5r -
Title: Poems by Kamāl Pāshā-zāda, کمال پاشا زاده, Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3, نظامى گنجوى and Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, ca. 1126-1198 or 9, خاقانی، افضل الدين
on f. 6r -
Title: Poem by Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent., حافظ
on f. 53r -
Title: Shabiristān-i khayāl (properly Shabiristān-i nukād) by Yaḥyā Sībak also called Fattāḥī, d. ca. 1448, فتاحي
on f. 54v -
Title: Fragments from the tafsīr (Mavāhib-i ʻaliyya?) of Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5, كاشفى، حسين واعض
on f. 246r -
Title: Mas̲navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, جلال الدين محمد بن محمد رومي

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 60.
4. ff 40r-41r
Author: Navāʼī, ʻAlī Shīr (d. 906/1501)
Title: A letter to ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492)

Letter on f. 40r is headed: ”کتابی که حضرت میر علی شیر به خدمه حضرت مولانا جامی نوشته شود”

Language(s): Mostly in Turkish

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 19.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 250 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 13 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

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