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Or 8769

Record Id:

032-003393440

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003393440

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 8769

Title:

Majmua

Scope & Content:

A collection of nine texts:

(1) ff 1v-32r : Bāb 5 of an unidentified work, beginning with a commentary upon Qur’ān 9:72 completed in 860 AH (1455-46 CE); with the following notes on ff 32v-34r ;

(2) f 32v : An account of how Adam was instructed by Gabriel to perform ghusl (major ablution) ;

(3) f 33r : A note mentioning the year 1789 CE ;

(4) f 34r : Passage from a work on eschatology concerning punishment for sins ;

(5) ff 34v-38v : An almanac in Persian with notes on stars in Chagatai ;

(6) ff 43v-58v : Munabbihāt (منبهات), a didactic work likely by Nasafī, translated into Chagatai, on Islamic principles and ethics. Translated from the Arabic (but not the Hadith work al-Munabbihāt attributed to Ibn Ḥajar al-‘Askalānī) and incomplete at the end ;

(7) ff 59v-71r : Pandnāma, Chagatai translation of the Persian didactic poem misattributed to Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭār ;

(8) ff 73r-v : Notes about praying in the mosque, as well as various writing exercises, one of which (f 73v) is dated 1789 CE ;

(9) ff 74v-81r : A fragment of a mesnevi in Old Anatolian Turkish or early Ottoman Turkish, likely copied in the 17th century CE.

Apart from text 9, the items in this volume were likely copied in the 18th century CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Hierarchy:

032-003393440

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, ff 81

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Chagatai
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

17th century-18th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Foliation : European, 81 ff

Dimension : 210 mm x 160 mm

Pricking and Ruling : Black ink with red catchwords and underlining.

Script : Central Asian naskh

Binding : Wooden binding

Source of Acquisition:

Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baroness Zouche on 13 October 1917.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Curzon, Darea, Baroness Zouche of Harringworth, 1860-1917
ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn

Places:

Central Asia, Asia