COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
BRO_Persian_MS_679
Reference Number:
Persian MS 679
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
Laṭāyif-i Ashrāfī
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Noble Pleasantries
Creator:
Niẓām al-Dīn Yamanī
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Sayyid Sulṭān valad-i Sayyid ‘Abd Allāh
Creator Role:
Scribe
Date Created:
1618 [1028 AH]
Description:
This defective copy of the Laṭāyif-i Ashrāfī (Noble Pleasantries) by Niẓām al-Dīn Yamanī (fl. mid-15th cent.) elucidates the mystical doctrines of the author's teacher of thirty years, Sufi master Mīr Sayyid Ashrāf Jahāngīr Simnānī (d. after 1436), who remains revered throughout the Indian subcontinent today. Simnānī was born and raised in Iran, and spent time with the poet Ḥāfiẓ before departing for India, where he ultimately passed away. Comprised of sixty laṭīfah, the work compiles various discourses and anecdotes of Simnāni that he personally reviewed and edited, as well as other events late in his life, added posthumously. It proved influential as many subsequent writers of Sufi biographies, such as Jāmī (d. 1492), references passages in his Nafaḥāt al-Uns. This manuscript completed by Sayyid Sulṭān valad-i Sayyid ‘Abd Allāh in 1021 AH (1612–13 CE) appears to not only be one of the earliest surviving copies of this work.
Language Code:
per
Language:
Persian
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
282 mm
Item Width:
197 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Hamilton, George William, 1807-1868, former owner
Provenance:
Murad Bakhsh, -1661, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2023-10-23
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2023-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands