Item Summary

Abridged translation of Nūr al-ʻuyūn fī talkhīṣ siyar al-amīn al-maʾmūn by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, a biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Descriptive Information

Title
سرور المحزون / از تصانىف قدرة الاخىار زبدة الابرار حضرت شاه ولى الله محدث دهلوى.
Transliterated Title
Surūr al-maḥzūn / az taṣānīf-i qudrat al-akhyār zubdat al-abrār Ḥaz̤rat Shāh Valī Allāh Muḥaddis̲ Dihlavī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 131W
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/js956j568
Publisher
[1840]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1840
Format
Manuscript
Extent
24 leaves : paper ; 223 x 153 (195 x 120) mm bound to 230 x 166 mm
Provenance
Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 60
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon on leaf 22a.
Title given in text on leaf 1b, line 11: Surūr al-makhzan [sic] fī tarjamat Nūr al-ʻuyūn.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on blue machine-made paper. Catchwords; marginal notes and corrections. Some staining; upper outer corner moldered.
Origin: Jumādá II 1256 H [August 1840], by Saʻd al-Dīn Ḥaydar (leaf 22a).
Incipit: بعد سپاس خداى تبارک و تعالى کشاىندۀ درهاى عطا
Binding Note
Rebound in cloth.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
محمد، النبي، -632
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0e05d0d5-6864-47fa-ac3b-00065506191f/manifest