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A collection of Sufi stories
(مجموعة من القصص الصوفية)

Title	A collection of Sufi stories
Title Original	مجموعة من القصص الصوفية
Publication Date:	1123 AH / 1711 AD
Publication Place	Possibly Syria - Austrian National Library
Subject	Ink on paper. Nasta'liq script, consisting of 27 lines per page.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	305 × 168 ملم، 232 ورقة مخطوطة
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	N.F. 380
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus24;31;ar
Library Location	Austrian National Library
Date	1123 AH / 1711 AD
Notes	This manuscript is a collection of 39 Sufi stories and texts, in addition to poems and letters written in Persian, Turkish, and Arabic. Although there are no miniatures accompanying the written texts, each chapter opens with a finely decorated title-type title. The contents of the manuscript include, among other things, interpretations of the Holy Qur’an (tafsir), tales of Sufism, poems of the qasida type (an Arabic poetic form similar to a lyric poem or an ode), in addition to philosophical treatises dealing with the Christian Gospel. Although the date of copying is precisely known (1123 AH / 1711 AD) because it appears explicitly in the manuscript’s conclusion (the colophon), the place of its copying is not mentioned in the written record.
Sample Text	Leonie Fernsebner “Collection of Sufi Stories” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;31;ar
Cilt	The manuscript is half-bound in red leather with ornamental gilding on the spine upon which the title of the manuscript is impressed in golden letters, reading "neun und dreyssig mystische Abhandlungen" ("thirty-nine mystical treatises"). The material used for the boards of the book itself is cypress wood. This binding was custom made for Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Leonie FERNSEBNER
Seçili bibliyografya	Flügel, Gustav,Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien, vol. 3, Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1867: 489-501.

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A collection of Sufi stories

(مجموعة من القصص الصوفية)

Publication Date 1123 AH / 1711 AD

Publication Place Possibly Syria - Austrian National Library

Subject Ink on paper. Nasta'liq script, consisting of 27 lines per page.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 305 × 168 ملم، 232 ورقة مخطوطة

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID N.F. 380

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus24;31;ar

Library Location Austrian National Library

Date 1123 AH / 1711 AD

Notes This manuscript is a collection of 39 Sufi stories and texts, in addition to poems and letters written in Persian, Turkish, and Arabic. Although there are no miniatures accompanying the written texts, each chapter opens with a finely decorated title-type title. The contents of the manuscript include, among other things, interpretations of the Holy Qur’an (tafsir), tales of Sufism, poems of the qasida type (an Arabic poetic form similar to a lyric poem or an ode), in addition to philosophical treatises dealing with the Christian Gospel. Although the date of copying is precisely known (1123 AH / 1711 AD) because it appears explicitly in the manuscript’s conclusion (the colophon), the place of its copying is not mentioned in the written record.

Sample Text Leonie Fernsebner “Collection of Sufi Stories” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;31;ar

Cilt The manuscript is half-bound in red leather with ornamental gilding on the spine upon which the title of the manuscript is impressed in golden letters, reading "neun und dreyssig mystische Abhandlungen" ("thirty-nine mystical treatises"). The material used for the boards of the book itself is cypress wood. This binding was custom made for Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Leonie FERNSEBNER

Seçili bibliyografya Flügel, Gustav,Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien, vol. 3, Vienna: Verlag der K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1867: 489-501.