Or 9703 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
A miscellany
Contents
Summary of Contents: 9 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Sufism, Sufi poetry, Asceticism, Persian poetry, Anecdotes, Fables, Persian prose literature, Dialogues, Persian literature, Islamic eschatology, End of the world, and Ethics
1. 2v-4r ff
A work in verse
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.95.
2. 6v-7r ff
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.95.
3. 8v-9v ff
Title: Two poems
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.95.
4. 11v-14r ff
Title: Another poem
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.95.
5. 16v-29v ff
40v-61r ff
174v-200r ff
Much displaced in the binding
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.95.
6. 43v-61r ff
Title: Persian anecdotes of saints
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.95.
7. 84r-90v ff
Title: A Persian story about a beautiful youth from among the children of Israel called Daqyānūs دقیانوس
Composed 733
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.95.
8. 89v-92r ff
Title: A mystical tract in Persian in the form of questions and answers exchanged between Yūsuf ibn Sa‘īd Muḥammad یوسف ابن سعید محمد and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī جلال الدین 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.95.
9. In the margin of 89v-92r ff
Title: Rāḥat al-Qulūb
Title: راحة القلوب
A tract on ethics and eschatology
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.95.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 222 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 18 cm.
History
Origin: 17th-18th 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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