Item Summary

Arabic and Persian miscellany.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالة في الوجود] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Risālah fī al-wujūd] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 507
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sq87bx22k
Publisher
[184-?-185-?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1840-1859
Format
Manuscript
Extent
175 leaves : paper ; 169 x 111 mm. bound to 174 x 114 mm.
References
Storey C. A., Persian literature, II, 454 (no. 4).
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 73, 1070, 1274.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-4a: [Risālah fī al-wujūd].
2. fol. 4b-23a: [Asrār al-shahādah]. Incomplete at end.
3. fol. 23b-43b: [Blank].
4. fol. 43b-114a: Risālah fī ḥaqīqat al-ajsām wa-al-ajsād wa-īḍāḥ kayfīyat al-maʻād. This work was written at the request of Shahzādah Ṭahmāsp Mīrzā and completed on 10 Rabīʻ I [year not given].
5. fol. 114b-119a: [Blank pages and notes].
6. fol. 119b-128b: Aḥvālāt-i khātim-i anbiyā Muḥammad Muṣṭafá va Amīr al-Muʼminīn va bāqī-yi aʼimmah.
7. fol. 129a-135a: [Blank].
8. fol. 135b-154a: Kitāb-i Javāhirʹnāmah. Dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1261 H., Mashhad.
9. fol. 154a-156a: [Anecdote concerning Shāh ʻAbbās and the discovery of some mines]. Dated 1261 H.
10. fol. 156b-159a: [Blank].
11. fol. 159b-175b: [Selections from Laṭāʼif al-ṭawāʼif] / Fakhr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Wāʻiẓ al-Kāshifī al-mashhūr bi-al-Ṣafī. In Persian; incomplete.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Origin: [Risālah fī al-wujūd] Copied Rabīʻ I 1267 in Kirman by Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Khurāsānī al-Mashhadī -- [Risālah fī ḥaqīqat al-ajsām] Copied 1267 in Kirman by Muḥammad ʻAlī Khurasānī.
Incipit: [رسالة في الوجود] الحمد لله ... و بعد فىقول ... ان الوجودات التى ىشار الىها بلفظ الوجود الى العبارة ثلثة -- [اسرار الشهادة] ان جانب [عبد الوهاب القزوىنى ] قد امرنى ان املى -- [رسالة في حقيقة اجسام] الحمد لله حمد معترف بروبوبىته مغترق من بحار رحمته ... ىقول ... کرىم بن ابراهىم ... انه قد ارسل الىّ ... الشهزاده طهماسب مىرزا ... رسالة قد وصلت الىه من بعض بلاد اذرباىجان من بعض فضلاء مراغة

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography
Precious stones
Imams (Shiites)—Biography
Shaykhī—Doctrines
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
178

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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