[Collection of six Sufi texts].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Persian
  • Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 18--? and 1817]
Description
100 leaves : paper ; 258 x 150 (177-202 x 85-100) mm. bound to 260 x 150 mm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of six texts on Sufism in Persian and Arabic.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Physical description: 15-19 lines per page; written in black by different hands on brown Arabic glazed, laid paper. Text 1 written in naskhi; texts 2-6 written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords and rubrication; a few marginal notes. Some insect damage. List of texts on fol. 1a and on label on front cover. Numbers 20-24 in Western numerals listed on label on back cover. Fol. 10a-14a, 47b-48a, 75a, 85b-86a, 99b-100 are either blank or contain title information by a later hand.
    • Text 1 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خص الاولىاء بحسن الاستماع
    • Text 2 incipit: بسم الله ... احدى راست حمد بىحد که حمد و حامد و محمود اوست و حمدى راست
    • Text 3 incipit: بسم الله ... رب وفقنا للتكميل والتميم لا احصى ثناء عليك كيف وكل ثنائي يعود اليك
    • Text 4 incipit: بسم الله ... حمد جلىلى را که بجمىع محامد محمد است و صلوات بر انسان کامل که در مرتبه جامع محمد است
    • Text 5 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحمد لله که حقىقت از آفتاب روشن تر است
    • Text 6 incipit (after introduction): بسم الله ... ايها الولد العزيز المحب اطال الله بقاءك لطاعته
    Binding note
    Full burgundy leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets.
    Language note
    Persian and Arabic.
    Contents
    • 1. 20W, fol. 1b-9b: [Treatise on the lawfulness of samāʻ]. In Arabic.
    • 2. 21W, fol. 14b-47a: Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn / Dārā Shikūh. In Persian; year of compilation is given as 1062H (1651 or 2) (fol. 14b).
    • 3. 22W, fol. 48b-66b: Lavāyiḥ / Jāmī. In Persian. In Persian; dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1232H (April-May 1817) (fol. 66b).
    • 4. 23W, fol. 67a-74b: Ṣulḥ-i kull / Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī. In Persian; composed in 1016H (1607 or 8) and dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 74b).
    • 5. 23W, fol. 75b-85a: Risālah / Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh. In Persian; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 85a).
    • 6. 24W, fol. 86b-98b: Ayyuhā al-walad / al-Ghazzālī. In Arabic; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 98b). Followed by a short prayer in Arabic and Persian on fol. 99a.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
    Source acquisition
    Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. et al. Descriptive catalog, 1985, 2012.
    • Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 101, 108, 111.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    678575815
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