Manuscript/Book details for Collective volume with texts in religious didactic Persian

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title Collective volume with texts in religious didactic Persian
language in persian manuscript indigenous paper
place/date N.p. 17th century
physical app. Collective volume with texts in religious didactic Persian, and some Arabic, indigenous paper, 50 ff., 17 x 12.5 cm, nasta`liq and naskh script in a number of different hands, half-leather Oriental binding, pasted boards. price € 495.00
bibliogr. nr. mspers45
context (1) ff. 1b-7a. Anonymous poem on the basics of ritual prayer. (2) ff. 7b-8b. Notes in prose and poetry. F. 9a is blank. (3) ff. 9b-20b. Didactic poem on the tenets of Islam, with prose introduction. As author is mentioned al-Hasan b. Salimi al-Tuni. The five `Ibadat are treated to some length. (4) f. 21a. Religious poetry in honour of the Prophet, in Arabic. (5) ff. 21b-24a. A short mystical text in prose and poetry. Followed on f. 24a by a few lines of poetry and quotations from the Qur’an. (6) ff. 24b-25a. Poetry, by Amir Qasim, and possibly others. (7) ff. 25b-28a. Religious didactic prose, on the Pir, the Sufi master. Followed on ff. 28a-b by poetical quotations. (8) ff. 29a-35b. Poetry from several sources, from the Diwan-i Shams by Galal al-Din Rumi (Mawlana, d. 672/1273), and possibly also (on f. 34a) poetry by Qasim (see No. 6, above). On f. 35b poetry by Mawlana Arzi. (9) f. 36a. Prayer text in Arabic. (10) ff. 36b-43b. Fasl-i Bayan-i Pir u Murid. A treatise in prose (Su’al – Gawab) on the Suf master and the Sufi apprewntice. Abrupt end on f. 43b. (11) ff. 44a-48a . Several shorter texts and fragments. (12) ff. 48b-49a. Dar Bab-i Farzand tarashidan, on shaving the son’s hair (`Aqiqa?). (13) ff. 49a-50b. Poetry (in Persian) and prayers (in Arabic).
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