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Title

Kitāb-i Jāvīdān-i durr-i yatīm ast.
کتاب جاوىدان در ىتىم است

Authors

• Faz̤l Allāh Astarābādī, 1340-1394
  فضل الله استرآبادي

Other related names

• Bektaşî Derviş Murtaza, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008101121)
  درويش مرتضى.

Call number

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 254
(Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton University Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3060501
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122695034
• http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xs55mc12f

Publisher

Princeton University

Language

In Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1807 or 1808

Summary

A translation by Derviş Murtaza Bektaşî of Faz̤l Allāh's Jāvīdān-nāmah, his most famous work on Hurufism. The original text of the translation ends on fol. 322b (see explicit), and, in this copy, this is followed by a versified conclusion by the translator on fol. 323a-326a (see end of explicit).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from fol. 12b. Other titles from different places in the ms., including fol. 13a and fol. 322b (see end of text).
   
• Physical description: 20 lines per page. Written in a casual hand, in a medium-sized informal ruqʻah in black ink, with use of blue ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Cream wove paper. Fol. 2b-10a have a list of contents in the same hand as the main text. Fol. 10b-11a contain a key to the meanings of letters used in the text, entitled "Miftah-i huruf-i Câvidân-i dürr-i yetim". A short paragraph on fol. 12a. The two colophons by the scribe on fol. 326a are followed by a page of verses on fol. 326b in a later hand, and a calligraphic drawing of a human figure on fol. 327a.
   

Extent

328 leaves : 188 x 120 (138 x 78) mm. bound to 188 x 125 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled panel design on covers consisting of a simple frame made with blind fillets, foliage stamps along the inner borders of the frame and six tear-shaped floral stamps inside the frame.

Subjects topical

• Hurufis--Doctrines
• Arabic alphabet--Religious aspects--Islam
• Arabic alphabet--Religious aspects--Sufism
• Arabic alphabet--Symbolic aspects
• Sufi poetry, Turkish--17th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New Jersey--Princeton

Genres

• Manuscripts, Turkish--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• f. 2. b — List of contents
• f. 10. b — Key to meanings
• f. 12. a — Short paragraph
• f. 12. b — Preamble
• f. 16. b — Kitāb-i Jāvīdān-i durr-i yatīm ast
• f. 323. a — Verse conclusion
• f. 326. a — Colophons
• f. 326. b — Verses/Human figure