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Walters Ms. W.643, Three short Sufi works

Walters Ms. W.643, Three short Sufi works

Lavāyiḥ

Lavāmiʿ

Nay nāmah

لوايح

لوامع

ني نامه

Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī (author)

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامي (author)

Bābā Shāh ibn Sulṭān ʿAlī Iṣfahānī (scribe)

This is an illuminated manuscript comprised of three short works on Sufism by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE), produced in Safavid Iran. The first work is called Lavāyiḥ and consists of a collection of apophthegms. The second work is a commentary on the famous Arabic "Wine poem" (Khamrīyah) by ʿUmar ibn Fāriḍ (d. 632 AH / 1235 CE). The third work is a commentary on the "Song of the flute" from the beginning of the Mas̱navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 672 AH / 1273 CE). The manuscript was written in nastaʿlīq script by the well-known Iranian calligrapher Bābā Shāh ibn Sulṭān ʿAlī Iṣfahānī in 999 AH / 1591 CE. There is a note dated to the year 1105 AH / 1694 CE on fol. 1a indicating that the manuscript is made up of two papers: Samarqandī (for the text) and Dawlatābādī (for the margins). There are also seals dating between the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W643/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

Titlepiece with title inscribed in white ink; interlinear gilt decoration; small triangular pieces and a double frame

Titlepiece with title inscribed in white ink; interlinear gilt decoration; small triangular pieces and a double frame

Small headpiece on a gilt ground

fol. 1b Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Incipit; titlepiece This is an illuminated incipit page bearing a titlepiece inscribed Lavāyiḥ in white tawqīʿ script. In the outer margin is inscribed the text of the second work, Lavāmiʿ.

fol. 37a Colophon Colophon This colophon concludes with the inscription: katabahau al-ʿabd al-mudhnib Bābā Shāh Iṣfahānī.

fol. 55a Colophon Colophon This colophon explains the nature of the work and gives the name of the calligrapher and the date of copying as Rajab 999 AH / 1591 CE. It reads: tammat hadhā [sic] al-risālah al-sharīfa[h] /1/ mushtamal [sic] ʿalá nikāt laṭīfah /2/ fī tafsīr abyāt maʿnawīyah ʿalá /3/ al-ṣadr al-Mathawī al-Maʿnawī /4/ qaddasa sirruhu al-ʿazīz Jalāl /5/ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Rūmī ʿalayhi /6/ al-raḥmah wa-al-ghufrān /7/ ʿalá yad al-kātib al-faqīr Bābā Sāh bn Sulṭān /8/ ʿAlī Iṣfahānī /9/ fī shahr Rajab al-murajjab /10/ sanat tisʿ wa-tisʿīn wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah /11/ al-hijrīyah al-nabawīyah /12/

Rajab 999 AH / 1591 CE

Round seal (in the center) of Allāh Muḥammad ʿAlī, 1030 AH / 1620-1 CE (fol. 1a)

Note dated 22 Jum. II 1105 AH / 1694 CE (fol. 1a)

Square seal with the name Maḥmūd (partially erased) and an inscription with the date 1115 AH / 1703-4 CE (fol. 1a)

Octagonal seal of Ḥusayn Shāh Ghulāmī underneath an inscription giving the date Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1127 AH / 1715 CE (fol. 1a)

Ownership statement of Ḥusayn Qavam [?] Daftar, 1301 AH / 1883-4 (fol. 2a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

Arabic

paper

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1591

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