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Or 15660

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032-004343461
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Or 15660
Title:
Khusraw va Shirin
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
199 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140?-1203?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178439,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2474895
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140?-1203?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178439,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2474895
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15660

Khusraw va Shirin

Contents

1 copy of Khusraw va Shīrīn by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3

Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى
Title: Khusraw va Shīrīn
Title: خسرو و شيرين

The famous mas̲navī allegorical romance by Niẓāmī (d. ca. 605/1209).

Other contents: numerous text corrections in margins; f. 1r, owners’ inscriptions; f. 199v, formulae of supplicatory prayer in Arabic, for the most part appallingly misspelled.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Somewhat coarse brown paper.
Extent: 199 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 118 mm.

Condition

Extensively repaired with brown wrapping paper, and with slight damp staining.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

15 lines to a page.

Hand(s)

Good nastaʻlīq

Decoration

Episode headings in red. Text frames: black, gold, black, black, blue. Unsophisticated illuminated heading, in gold, blue, green, white, and puce, f. 1v.

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Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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