Or 7863 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: 6 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, Sufi poetry, Persian literature, Dialogues, Allegory, Religious life, Proverbs, Maxims, Wisdom, Ethics, and Ethics—Iran

1. 3v-28r ff

Author: ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289? ‘Irāqī عرقی, فخر الدین ابراهیم عراقی

Title: Lama‘āt

Title: لمعات

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.93.

2. 28v-39r ff

Title: Qissah-’i Yūsuf

Title: قصۀ یوسف

Allegorical dialogue between Beauty, Grief, and Love, called Qissah-’i Yūsuf on the end-papers

Identical to item 3 in folios 39v-50r

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.93.

3. 35r-53v ff

Title: Qissah-’i Yūsuf

Title: قصۀ یوسف

Allegorical dialogue between Beauty, Grief, and Love, called Qissah-’i Yūsuf on the end-papers

Identical to item 2 in folios 28v-39r

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.93.

4. 50v-53v ff

Author: Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Daqqāq ابو علی الحسن ابن محمد الدقاق

Title: Kitāb-i anābat

Title: کتاب الانابت

A treatise on the religious life 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.93.

5. 54v-122r ff

Title: Tuḥfat al-Mulūk

Title: تحفة الملوک

An anonymous work on the maxims of the sages

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.93.

6. 122v-124r ff

Title: Ẓafarnāmah-’i Buzurgmihr

Title: ظفرنامۀ بزرگمهر

An ethical work in dialogue form in a hand which differs from that used in the previous tracts

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.93.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 124 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 26.6 × 20.3 cm.

History

Origin: 761 AH

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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