Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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BRO_Persian_MS_679
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 679
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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Laṭāyif-i Ashrāfī
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Noble Pleasantries
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Creator:
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Niẓām al-Dīn Yamanī
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Sayyid Sulṭān valad-i Sayyid ‘Abd Allāh
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Date Created:
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1618 [1028 AH]
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Description:
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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.
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Language Code:
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per
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Language:
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Persian
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Item Height:
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282 mm
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Item Width:
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197 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Hamilton, George William, 1807-1868, former owner
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Provenance:
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Murad Bakhsh, -1661, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2023-10-23
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2023-11
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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