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Anvār-i Suhaylī. Anwar Sohaili
( انوار سهيلي)

Title	Anvār-i Suhaylī. Anwar Sohaili
Title Original	انوار سهيلي
Author	Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, ca. 1504 or 5. Kashfi, Hussein Waiz
Author Original	كاشفي، حسين واعظ
Publication Date:	1670
Subject	Persian literature > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	1 v. ([510]p. ) ; 29.5cm.
Library:	Columbia University Libraries
Record ID	ht005231758
Library Location	Online
Date	1670
Notes	Text is written in nastaʻlīq shekasteh script in black ink with some red. The initial page, which seems to have been added later when the codex was rebound, contains the title of the work and a brief sketch of the author's life and works in Persian, written in blue ink in nastaʻlīq script. These notes also present the same information about the time and place of production of this codex as is presented on the last page of the manuscript(noted above). In addition, written in English cursive in pencil, this page contains a note which states, erroneously, that this codex is the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Last page of the manuscript states that this copy was made in the 12th year of the reign of Khān Muhammad Awrangābādī, more commonly known as Awrangzeyb, the Mughal Emperor. Awrangzeyb reigned from 1658-1707; thus this manuscript must have been completed in 1080/1670 in India. The codex does not have original binding; it has clearly been rebound, probably in the 19th century with a plain binding; many of the pages have been remounted on a different kind of paper. There is no title page on the original paper.
Sample Text	Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's florid Persian version of the 8th century Arabic book of fables, Kalīlah wa Dimnah, by Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, which is itself a translation of the Pahlavī version of the original Sanskrit work by Bidpai. Kāshifī's Anvār-i Suhaylī has been published many times, sometimes under the Arabic title, Kalīlah wa Dimnah.
Biyografik / Tarihsel Not	Died 910/1505. Influential preacher and prolific prose writer of 15th century Herat, mentioned in Khwāndamīr's Habīb al-Siyar. He was an associate of the famous Sufī poet, Jāmī, and was patronized by the powerful minister, Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navā'ī. Some of his works were dedicated to the last Timurid Sultan, Husayn Bayqara.
Kaynaklar	Browne, v. ii, p. 349-353; v. iii, p. 503-4.
Tekdüzen Başlık	Kalīlah wa Dimnah كليلة و دمنة.
WorldCat	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81282226

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Anvār-i Suhaylī. Anwar Sohaili

( انوار سهيلي)

Author Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, ca. 1504 or 5. Kashfi, Hussein Waiz

Author Original كاشفي، حسين واعظ

Publication Date 1670

Subject Persian literature > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 1 v. ([510]p. ) ; 29.5cm.

Library Columbia University Libraries

Record ID ht005231758

Library Location Online

Date 1670

Notes Text is written in nastaʻlīq shekasteh script in black ink with some red. The initial page, which seems to have been added later when the codex was rebound, contains the title of the work and a brief sketch of the author's life and works in Persian, written in blue ink in nastaʻlīq script. These notes also present the same information about the time and place of production of this codex as is presented on the last page of the manuscript(noted above). In addition, written in English cursive in pencil, this page contains a note which states, erroneously, that this codex is the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Last page of the manuscript states that this copy was made in the 12th year of the reign of Khān Muhammad Awrangābādī, more commonly known as Awrangzeyb, the Mughal Emperor. Awrangzeyb reigned from 1658-1707; thus this manuscript must have been completed in 1080/1670 in India. The codex does not have original binding; it has clearly been rebound, probably in the 19th century with a plain binding; many of the pages have been remounted on a different kind of paper. There is no title page on the original paper.

Sample Text Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's florid Persian version of the 8th century Arabic book of fables, Kalīlah wa Dimnah, by Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, which is itself a translation of the Pahlavī version of the original Sanskrit work by Bidpai. Kāshifī's Anvār-i Suhaylī has been published many times, sometimes under the Arabic title, Kalīlah wa Dimnah.

Biyografik / Tarihsel Not Died 910/1505. Influential preacher and prolific prose writer of 15th century Herat, mentioned in Khwāndamīr's Habīb al-Siyar. He was an associate of the famous Sufī poet, Jāmī, and was patronized by the powerful minister, Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navā'ī. Some of his works were dedicated to the last Timurid Sultan, Husayn Bayqara.

Kaynaklar Browne, v. ii, p. 349-353; v. iii, p. 503-4.

Tekdüzen Başlık Kalīlah wa Dimnah كليلة و دمنة.

WorldCat https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81282226