[IO Islamic 1234] جاودان نامه

Jâwidânnâma

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1813 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1234 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1813

Jâwidânnâma (جاودان نامه).

The book of eternity or the beginning and end of being, another half metaphysical, half mystical treatise by the same Afḍal-aldîn Kâshî, in four bâbs, viz.:

1.در شناختن قسام علوم بطريق كلّى , on fol. 240a, in five faṣls.

2.در شناختن خود و راه, on fol. 242a, in eleven faṣls.

3.در شناختن آغاز كار, on fol. 255b, in ten faṣls.

4.در شناختن انجام كار, on fol. 266a, in ten faṣls.

It begins, on fol. 239b, thus: اين نامه ايست از ما به برادرانى كه ايشانرا انسانيّت رنجه وار الخ.

Another copy of the same جاودان نامه is noticed in Rieu ii. p. 831a, No. XXV, see also Ḥ. Khalfa ii. p. 582, and No. 1922, 8 below.

Dated by Abû Ṭâlib alḥusainî at Murshidâbâd the 16th of Rajab, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766, Dec. 18).

Treatises of similar contents by Afḍal Kâshî (to be described further down) are: ره انجام نامه , on consciousness and cognition, Rieu ii. p. 830b, No. XXIII, and Bodleian Cat., No. 1445, III ; see Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 515, and Nos. 1921, 6 and 1922, 15 below; رسالۀ ساز و پيرايۀ شاهان, on the rights and duties of royalty, Bodleian Cat., No. 1445, II, and No. 1921, 5 below; a Persian paraphrase of the thirteen faṣls of the essay on the human soul by Hermes Trismegistus, see Nos. 1921, 14, and 1922, 16 below, and a number of smaller treatises and tracts without a special title, see No. 1921 below.

No. 1234, ff. 239b-274b, ll. 16; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 43/8 in.