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Or 12189

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032-003380385
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Or 12189
Title:
Ruba’iyat by Omar Khayyām
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
47 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12189 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1950
Date Range:
1900-1950
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ben David Dawud, Yuhanna Mirza, 1885-1969,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97488913
Ben David Dawud, Yuhanna Mirza, 1885-1969,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97488913
Mīrzā Yūhanna Dāʿūd
Omar Khayyam, mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131
Omar Khayyam, mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12189

Ruba’iyat by Omar Khayyām

Contents

Quatrains (poems consisting of four lines) in Judeo-Persian.

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

ff. 2r-47v
Author: עמר אל-ח’יאם Omar Khayyām
Title: רבעיאת
Title: Rubaʿiyat

Copied from [Oxford_BOD] MS. Ouseley 140

With a preface and appendix by Ben David Dawud, Yuhanna Mirza, 1885-1969.

Preface on f. 1v: 'Omar Khayyām, Rubiayāt: transliterated in Judeo-Persian, from the famous Persian manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: marked "No. 524"; which is dated 865, a. H. = a. D. 1460; With a preface and after-word, by Y. Dawud. The admirable English version of Fitzgerald, was made from the above mentioned manuscript. Presented to the British Museum, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. Y. Dawud.'

Yuhanna Dawud, known as Yohanan ben David in Hebrew and John David in English; a traditional Jew from a religious background; collected Persian works of art and Islamic treasures from his boyhood; Professor of Oriental Art and Literature; oriental translator; Curator of the Department of Islamic Art, British Museum; died London, 1969.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Blue paper without laid lines and chain lines; a castle tower in a shield..
Extent: 47 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F.1r is blank.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 8

Written lines: 8

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

In numbered stanzas.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew square script of the 20th century. Scribe was probably Yūḥannā Dāʾūd.

Decoration

The photocopy of the ff. 2v-3r of Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Ouseley 140.

Additions:

Binding

Multi-coloured textile binding; in a slip-case.

Title on the spine of the slip-case: 'Rubāʿiyyāt. Judaeo-Persian. Brit. Mus. - Oriental MS. 12189.'

History

Origin: 1900-1950 1st half of the 20th century England (Oxford)?

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back pastedown: 'Presented by Mīrzā Yūhanna Dāʿūd 18. iii. 58.' Date of accession 19 March 1958.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel, G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12189 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 44.
    Fihrist online catalogue (https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_5480)

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