Descriptive Information

Title

ديوان ... [الخ.].

Transliterated Title

Dīvān ... [etc.].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1469Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tq57nt62v

Publisher

[1518-1519]

Language

Persian

Date Created

1518-1519

Format

Manuscript

Extent

400 leaves: paper ; 220 x 140 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1a-338a: Dīvān / Niʻmat Allāh Valī.

2. fol. 338a-340a: [Short text on the Mahdī]. Short treatise in verses and prose on the reign of the Mahdī.

3. fol. 340b-400b: [Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī]. Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī in five chapters (bāb) and a conclusion (see table of contents, fol. 343b). The name of Naṣr Allāh ibn Khalīl Allāh ibn Hibat Allāh is mentioned in the text.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Title provided by cataloger.

Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, black and blue.

Physical description: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red and occasionally gold (see fol. 343b). Dark cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves mended (see fol. 1-8 and fol. 400).

Decoration: Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpieces at the beginning of texts 1 and 3 (fol. 1b and 340b).

Origin: [Dīvān] Copied on 1 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 924 [Dec. 4, 1518] (colophon, fol. 338a) -- [Biography] Copied in 925? [1519] (colophon, fol. 400b, hardly legible).

Incipit: [ديوان] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى عيّن عين الاعيان بفيضه الاقدس الاقدم وسبحانه من تجلى بذاته لذاته -- [Short text] بسم ... اما بعد فقد قال اخى البني المصطفى ووصيه امام اهل الارض والسما علي المرتضى ... بُنيّ اذ اخباشت الترك فاشطر ولايت مهدي يقوم ويعدل وذلّ ملوك الارض من ال هاشم -- [Biography] بسم ... الحمد لله الذي اضاء شبكات قابليات الاشياء فى علمه تعالى وتقدي بنور الوجود ... [341أ] ... اما بعد بر ضمير غيب نماى اصحاب بصيرت چون شعشعه

Binding Note

Orange-brown leather over cardboard. Blind-tooled frames with small motif in the corners. Blue paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Mahdi—Early works to 1800

Niʻmat Allāh Valī 1330?-1431

Khānaqāh-i Niʻmat Allāhī

Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count

420

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7e2233e5-2ca0-459e-9088-707561513170/manifest

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