[IO Islamic 821] نزهة الارواح

Nuzhat-alarwâḥ

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1827 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 821 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1827

The same.

This copy, which is not dated, contains twenty-nine faṣls instead of the usual twenty-eight, the twenty-seventh having been split into two faṣls with a special heading for the second one, viz.:

1.on fol.12b, last line ; 2. on fol.15b ; 3.on fol.21b; 4.on fol. 24a; 5.on fol. 26b; 6.on fol. 28b; 7.on fol.30b; 8.on fol.34a, lin. penult.; 9.on fol.38a, lin. penult.; 10.on fol.40a, lines 1 and 2 ; 11.on fol.43b; 12.on fol.50a, lines 1 and 2 ; 13.on fol. 51b, here styled در حقيقت دل ; 14.on fol.56a; 15.on fol.60b, here styled در بيان حقائق عشق; 16.on fol.65a, here styled as in the preceding copy; 17.on fol.69b, last line; 18.on fol. 73a; 19.on fol.76b; 20.on fol.81a, here styled در بيان جدّ و اجتهاد; 21.on fol.85b, lin.penult.; 22.on fol.89b; 23.on fol.92b,last line;24.on fol.97b, here styled as in the Vienna copy در كشف معانئ سلوك ; 25.on fol.109a, lines 1 and 2; 26.on fol.112b; 27.on fol. 120a, here styled as in Nos. 1304 and 2837 (1822 and 1825 in this Cat.); 28.not found in the other copies, on fol.123a, styled در رضا و ترك, corresponding to fol. 131b, l. 8 in the preceding copy; 29.=28 in the other copies, on fol. 126a.

Numerous marginal and interlinear glosses throughout the whole copy.

No. 821, ff. 130, ll. 9; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 41/4 in.