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Or 15659
Title:
Bi sarnamah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
95 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
ʿAṭṭár, Farīd al-Dīn, d 1230
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15659

Bi sarnamah

Contents

1 copy of Bī sarnāmah by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230

Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين
Title: Bī sarnāmah
Title: بی سرنامه

A mystical mas̲navī poem almost certainly falsely attributed to Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭār (d. ca. 617/1220).

Other contents: numerous corrections in margins; inside front and back covers, miscellaneous scribbles; f. 1r, inscription Vuṣlat (a word that occurs in many bayts of the exordium of Bī sarnāmah).

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Indian offwhite laid paper with watermarks including ‘Ramji Dass’.
Extent: 95 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 133 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʻlīq

Additions:

Binding

Brown morocco binding, very worn.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-10-11

Acquired from Bonhams sale 11 October 2000, part of lot 128.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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