Author
Amir Kamal al-Din Hussein b. Shihab al-Din Ismail Tabassi
Publication Date
1575
Type
Other
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
University of La Laguna Library
Record ID
cdi_europeana_collections_9200519_ark_12148_btv1b525129893
Date
1575
Notes
Scanning from an original document: Persian Supplement 776. also contains 85 paintings [from the Šīrāz school, contemporary with the copy] (compare to E. Blochet, Revue des Bibliothèques, 1898, p. 83-88; E. Blochet, Les Enluminures des Manuscrits Orientaux - turcs, arabes, persans, Paris, 1926, p. 126-7 and Pl. LXXVIIIa; B. Robinson, A descriptive catalog of the Persian paintings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1958, p. 123], which are:1).- F. 11v.- (112 x 158 mm) “While the other angels worship Ādam, Iblīs refuses.”2).- F. 19 (115 x 180) “Eager to acquire Yūsuf, the Egyptians crowd around him; among them is a dervish and, in the distance, we see Zulayhā arriving on a camel."3).- F. 23 (118 x 162) "In a room decorated with paintings representing her with him, Zulayhā holds Yūsuf by the skirt of her dress who wants to escape from her."4).- F. 27v (119 x 155) "The women of Egypt who were peeling fruit were injured with their knives when Yūsuf enters, with an ewer in his hand, into the room where Zulayhā is located. Miṣrī sees a drunk young man dozing near a stream and threatened by a snake and a scorpion."7).- F. 39v (114 x 134) "The young man wakes up, sees Ẓū al-Nūn and is filled with shame."8).- F. 44 (124 x 192) "Ibrāhīm Adham Balhī, who was hunting, has just hit a gazelle with his arrow and the beast emits complaints".9).- F. 46v (130 x 217) "Ibrāhīm Adham Balhī finds his already grown-up son in Mecca, whom a woman is taking on a pilgrimage."10).- F. 61v (120 x 217) "The king's daughter comes to a nighttime celebration organized in his honor in the company of the young slave of whom she is in love."11).- F. 67 (109 x 174) “During a session of music (samā‛) and dance organized by the dervishes, Abū Sa‛īd Abī l-Hayr fell unconscious.”12).- F. 76 (114 x 142) “‛Abd-ullāh Anṣārī and his disciples during a class where Arabic verses are recited”.13).- F. 80 (124 x 147) “Aḥ̣mad Ġazzālī passes on horseback in front of the door of a ḥammām from which a young man emerges”.14).- F. 84v (114 x 175) “At Hwārazm, the mystic poet Sanā’ī comes, shoeless, in front of the shop of the young butcher to look for the shoes that he wears on his feet”.15).- F. 86 (118 x 154) “‛Ayn al-Quzzāt Hamadānī, followed by his disciples, comes in front of the shop of the young goldsmith with whom he is in love and for whom he composed his Lavā’iḥ and Arab rubā‛iyyāt”.16).- F. 90 (113 x 162) “Aḥmad-i Ğām Zinda-pīl in the company of the young son of Amīr Ā’īna, governor of Nayšābūr, with whom he is in love.”17).- F. 95v (109 x 159) “The šayh Ğamāl Awḥ̣adī gives the young Ḥaydarī advice on what to wear in the presence of women."18).- F. 97 (106 x 127) "Šihāb al-Dīn Maqtūl, who is with his disciples, writes a rubā‛ī for the young man with whom he is in love."19).- F. 98v (115 x 142) "The young ‛Ayn al-Zamān, one of his disciples, reads an Arabic poem to his master Sa‛d al-Dīn Ḥamavī”.20).- F. 101v (109 x 164) “At the Šīrāz bazaar the šayh Rūzbihān falls unconscious in front of the young vegetable seller’s shop”.21).- F. 104 (110 x 162) “The šayh Mağd al-Dīn Baġdādī preaches on the minbar in the presence of the Sultan of Hwārazm Muḥammad and young girls listen to him. ".23).- F. 111 (130 x 163) “The šayh Nağm al-Dīn Kubrà and his disciples fought the Mongol army during the invasion of Hwārazm in 618H.(/1221-2) and the šayh was mortally wounded”.24).- F. 114 (121 x 149) “The šayh Ṣan‛ān contemplates the beautiful Christian woman leaning over her balcony”.25).- F. 122 (117 x 162) “Hwāğa Ḥasan ‛Ārif falls in love with a young girl he meets on the way”.26).- F. 125 (112 x 149) “At the cemetery of Nayšābūr, where the tomb of the dervish died in his shop, the šayh ‛Aṭṭār meditates”.27).- F. 127 (112 x 142) “The šayh Ibn Fāriz fell in love with a young craftsman who forged copper in his workshop”.28).- F. 129 (120 x 147) “Mounted on a donkey, the šayh Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ‛Arabī talks with the young šayh Ṣadr al-Dīn”.29).- F. 131v (118 x 135) “Muḥyī al-Dīn, Ṣadr al-Dīn and other šayh talk about love licit."30).- F. 135v (121 x 150) "Šams Tabrīzī plays chess with a young Christian."31).- F. 139 (118 x 162) "During the siege of the fortress of Hamadān by Genghis Khan, Nağm al-Dīn Rāzī threw stones at the attackers in the company of a young goldsmith ".32).- F. 141v (119 x 163) "In front of the door of the hānqāh, the sultan helps Sayf al-Dīn Bāharzī to climb onto his horse."33).- F. 143v (116 x 160) "In Bukhara, the šayh ‛Azīz Nasafī gives a lesson to his disciples, among whom is the son of an amīr of the sultan with whom he is in love."34).- F. 146 (117 x 161) "Ğalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, in the goldsmiths' quarter, begins to dance and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn bows at his feet."35).- F. 148 (115 x 174) “Fahr al-Dīn ‛Irāqī arrived in Multān at the taqiyya of the Qalandar dervishes”.36).- F. 154v (120 x 147) “The poet Sa‛dī meets in a ḥammām the šayh Humām al-Dīn Tabrīzī and his son”.37).- F. 156v (112 x 160) “Amīr Sayyid Ḥusaynī is sitting in a tent in the company of the young lute player in the Lūlī (Gypsy) camp”. šayh Ibrāhīm”.39).- F. 162 (113 x 173) “Amīr Husraw Dihlavī hands Fīrūzšāh of Delhi his injured arm and tells him about Ḥasan Dihlavī, who is sitting next to the sultan”.40).- F. 164 (111 x 158) “ Sulṭ̣ān Ḥusayn Ahlātī has gold, silver and jewels brought to him. Naqšband is in a garden in the company of a šayh and various other characters”.43).- F. 171 (114 x 162) “The Sultan of Hwārazm is on his throne and watches the fight of Pahlavān Maḥmūd Puryār Hwārazmī and the young Indian wrestler”.44).- F. 176 (116 x 143) “The poet Luṭf-ullāh Nayšābūrī, whose companion is sitting in the countryside, laments because a bottle has been broken by the hail”.45).- F. 178v (119 x 167) “Through a window, the sultan sees Ḥāfiż in the company of the muftī's son and the latter is holding a cup of wine”.46).- F. 181v (112 x 149) “Sa‛d al-Dīn Taftazānī took as his disciple a young man from Hwārazm”.47).- F. 185 (110 x 155) “Amīr Sayyid Šarīf is with his disciples, among whom his young favorite”.48).- F. 186v (112 x 154) “ Muḥammad Šīrīn Maġribī calls out to a young merchant whose donkey is loaded with salt”.49).- F. 188 (112 x 161) “In Tabrīz Kamāl Huğandī passes in front of the workshop of a young blacksmith who works copper”.50).- F. 193v (117 x 141) “Bahā al-Dīn ‛Alī and his disciples”.51).- F. 195 (116 x 158) “Hwāğa Abū l-Vafā is struck on the head by the harp player”52).- F. 202 (130 x 159) “The crowd sees Šāh Qāsim Anvār passing in a palanquin, on a camel, and he crosses the city of Rašt with in front of him the prince Šāh-ruh Mīrzā”.53).- F. 204 (106 x 158) “‛Imād al-Dīn Nasīmī talks with companions to find out what is the nature of the passion he feels for a young man”.54).- F. 208v (116 x 159) “ Ḥusayn Hwārazmī Kubravī asks that a young man be found that he had seen”.55).- F. 210v (117 x 145) “Šaraf al-Dīn ‛Alī Yazdī talks with disciples, including his favorite Muḥammad Āhī”.56).- F. 212 (112 x 143) “Amīr Sayyid Ḥakīmī and his disciples, including Hwāğa ‛Alī Ṭabasī”.57).- F. 213v (127 x 167) “A sultan watches children playing polo”.58).- F. 216 (125 x 168) “Muḥammad Tabādgānī participates in a session of music (samā‛) and ecstatic dance”.59).- F. 219 (110 x 169) “The young Hwāğa ‛Abd-ullāh in the shop of the bookbinder Ḥāğğī Maḥmūd is shown books”.60).- F. 224 (116 x 139) “The poet ‛Abd al-Raḥmān Ğāmī reads poems to his disciples, among whom his favorite ‛Aṭā-ullāh”.61).- F. 231 (127 x 176) “Sulaymān holds audience, surrounded by all creatures, and his vizier Āṣaf sits on a throne next to his. Sulaymān asks the queen of Sheba, Balqīs, to show him her legs."62).- F. 240v (112 x 150) "Iskandar, in India, in a room lit by two candlesticks, tightly embraces the young Indian woman."63).- F. 243v (117 x 169) "At the head of his army, in the country of the Rūs, Iskandar comes, when of a fight, to take a dīv with a lasso”.64).- F. 249v (109 x 159) “After having made a basin, Farhād presents to Šīrīn a cup drawn from this basin filled with the milk of the surrounding sheep”.65).- F. 254v (114 x 160) “Šīrīn is in a tent in the company of his 66).- F. 258 (109 x 144) “Laylà and Qays ‛Āmirī learn to write at school”.67).- F. 273 (115 x 147) “A servant discovers Prince Husraw [Parvīz] sleeping with a young girl in a forest”.68).- F. 279v (120 x 159) ““A party is given at night by Sultan Maḥmūd of Ghazna in honor of his favorite Ayāz”.69).- F. 283v (124 x 162) “Hunting on horseback around Iṣfahān, Abū l-Fatḥ Ğalāl al-Dīn Malikšāh sees a young man of marvelous beauty come out of a tent”.70).- F. 293 (120 x 167) “Sultan Muḥammad b. Malikšāh sees a young man enter and bow”.71).- F. 299 (124 x 157) “Isma‛īl Gīlakī arrives on horseback at Ṭabas Gīlakī, followed by his young favorite”.72).- F. 301 (121 x 154) “The Seljuk Sultan Muḥammad b. Malikšāh leaves the city on horseback to help the young man.”73).- F. 305v (111 x 160) “Sultan Sanğar b. Malikšāh goes down under a bridge to speak with the leader of a group of dervishes established there and among them is a very handsome young man .74).- F. 31
