Nuzʹhat al-arvāḥ.

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Title:
Nuzʹhat al-arvāḥ.
نزهة الارواح
Creator:
Mīr Ḥusaynī Haravī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim, 1272 or 1273-approximately 1317
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
1500? to 1582
Description:

Copy of a treatise on Sufi doctrine with a number of replacements pages written in another hand.

Language:
Persian
Holding institution:
Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
Publisher:
Free Library of Philadelphia
Data provider:
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Extent:
25 long lines.
Subject:
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Sufism--Early works to 1800
Sufi literature, Persian--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian--16th century
Provenance:

Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.

Formerly owned by Muḥammad Bāqir valad-i Qāz̤i valad-i Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī and purchased in Aḥmadankar (probably Ahmednagar) in the year 990 A.H (1582) (f. 110v).

Sold by Mīr Muḥammad for eight rupees (undated note f. 110v).

Formerly owned by Henry George Keene (signature on front flyleaf recto with "No. 77" and Sid[ney] Sus[sex] Coll[ege]". The same signature, dated March 1803 along with his stamp also appear (f. 1r).

Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate inside front cover).

Geographic region:
India?
Rights:
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Identifier:
Lewis O 40
Is part of:
OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World
Type (Broader):
Text
Type (Narrower):
Manuscripts
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