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France

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Paris

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Persans

Shelfmark

Supplément Persan 2040

Contents

Makhzan al-asrār (Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203)

Author

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

نظامى گنجوى

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Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (authorised)

Gäncävi, Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Gandschewi, Ilias Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Gandzhavi, Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjahʹī, Niẓāmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjavī, Elyās Yūsof Neẓāmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjavi, Nezami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjavi, Nezāmi-ye, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjavī, Niẓāmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjavī, Nizomii, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganjevi, Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Ganzhaviĭ, Nizomiĭ, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Gencewî, Nîzamî, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Gi︠a︡ndzhavi, Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Gi︠a︡ndzhevi, Nizami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Neẓāmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nezami Ganjavi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Neẓāmī Ganjavī, Elyās Yūsof, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nisami, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Niẓāmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami aus Gandjeh, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Gäncävi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Gandschewi, Ilias, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Gandzhavi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Niẓāmī Gang̐awī, Ilyās Ibn-Yūsuf, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 (variant)

Niẓāmī Ganjawī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Ganjevi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nîzamî Gencewî, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Gi︠a︡ndzhavi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami Gi︠a︡ndzhevi, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Niẓāmī-i Ganjahʹī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizami, Ilias, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Niẓāmī, Ilyās Ibn Yūsuf, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizomii Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizomiĭ Ganzhaviĭ, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

Nizomiĭ, Ilës I︠U︡suf ŭghli, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

نظامى گنجوى (variant)

نظامى گنجوى, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

نظامى گنجه‌اى (variant)

Bāqī Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā Yūsuf, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 (variant)

باقى محمد بن مولانا يوسف (variant)

Biographical notes

One of the greatest Persian poets and thinkers who spent most of his time in Ganja (Azerbaijan). Despite this, he had a connection to Anatolia through the dedication of one of the works that conforms his masterpiece (Khamsa), to a local ruler of Erzincan. The Khamsa is composed of five poems including: 1) Makhzan al-asrār, 2) Khusraw wa Shīrīn, 3) Laylā wa Majnūn, 4) Haft paykar, 5) Iskandarnāma . There is no agreement regarding both his date of birth (given between 535-40 [1141-1146 CE]) and the date of his death ( 575-613 [1180-1217 CE]).

Title

Makhzan al-asrār

مخزن الاسرار

Notes

This work is a philosophical poem in mas̲navī form opens the author's Khamsa. It comprised some 2,260 couplets, being the shortest of the compendium.

Composed in 582 AH [1184-1185 CE].

Dedicated to Fakhr al-Dīn Bahrām Shāh, d. 1225 ruler of the Mengüjekid dynasty od Erzincan

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Ganjavī, Niẓāmī. Nāma-i Makhzan al-asrār. Edited by Dastgirdī, Ḥasan Waḥīd. Tehran: Ibn-i Sīnā, 1955.

Translations

Ganjavī, Niẓāmī and Gholam Hossein Darab Khan. Makhzanol asrār, the treasury of mysteries. London: Arthur Probsthain, 1945.

Studies

Chelkowski, P.. "Niẓāmī Gand̲j̲awī." Encyclopaedia of Islam. , [n.d.].

Show filiations

Nuruosmaniye no. 3784

Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi no. 2051

Physical Description

Number of folios

282 ff

Dimensions of folio

width 16cm, height 25cm

History

Place

Aq Qoyunlu territory

Date of copy

15th. century