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Or 15583

Record Id:
032-004343447
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Or 15583
Title:
Yusuf va Zulaykha
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
146 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Urdu
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
2000
Date Range:
1500-2000
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, 1414-1492,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121431529,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90042997
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, 1414-1492,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121431529,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90042997
Sūbah Singh Sundī
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15583

Yusuf va Zulaykha

Contents

1 copy of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā by Jāmī

Author: Jāmī جامى
Title: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā
Title: یوسف و زلیخا

The allegorical poem on the story of Joseph and Zulaykhā, by ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492).

Other contents, in Urdu unless otherwise specified: f. 1v and 2r, marginal notes explaining words in the text; front endpapers and f. 145v, verses of love poetry in Urdu; front endpapers and f. 1r, scribbles; f. 146v, medical recipes and a note requesting money; back endpaper, note of a payment, and English inscription: ‘Mahabharata in Persian verse by Faizi’.

Undated.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 146 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 156 mm.

Hand(s)

Poor nastaʿlīq. Scribe: Sūbah Singh Sundī, a resident of Botala, district of Sinthala (in Punjab)

Decoration

Headings in red.

Additions:

Binding

Boards covered with worn paper, apparently from an exercise book.

History

Origin: 1500-2000 India

Provenance and Acquisition

Not known

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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