Author
Anonymous
Subject
Letter writing, Persian, Persian letters
Type
Book
Language
fas,ara
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
120
Physical Dimensions
120 folios, 6 flyleaves (ff. iii + 120 + iii) . Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 127 mm. Dimensions (written): 164 × 78 mm.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
Persian MS 500
Record ID
6997
Library Location
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester
Notes
An incomplete, undated, but probably 17th-century miscellany of Arabic and Persian devotional prayers and rituals combined with Persian prose treatises and examples of eloquent epistolography ( inshā' ) featuring 'sage advice', apparently with a second compilation devoted particularly to the latter, named for one 'Mullā Ḥusayn', which a later inscription on an initial flyleaf alleges once served as the private secretary of the Mughal ruler Akbar. However, since it contains correspondence from the Safavid ruler Shāh ‘Abbās addressed to Akbar's son and successor Jahāngir, as well as extracts from the Khizānat al-Favā’id al-Jalālīyah authored by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1383) , better known as Jalāl al-dīn Bukhārī Makhdūm-i Jahāniyān, he might be here identified as 'Mullā Ḥusayn'.
Sample Text
(basmala) برگ ۱پ (folio 1b): باسمه سبحانه. عن انیس ابن مالک رضی الله عنه ما من عبد من عباد الله یقول «بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم» الا غفر الله ذنوب خمسین سنة. من فواید الجلالیه...
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