Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 254 Kitāb-i Jāvīdān-i durr-i yatīm ast. / کتاب جاوىدان در ىتىم است
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
Publisher
Princeton UniversityLanguage
In Ottoman TurkishOrigin
Copied by Akçehisarî Derviş Süleyman in 1222 (1807-8) -- colophon (fol. 326a). The colophon is followed by another short selection of verses, added by the scribe in 1273 (1856-7).
- 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 mmSupport
PaperBinding
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
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