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RSPA 47

Record Id:
032-004380767
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004380767
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 47
Title:
1 copy of Dīvān-i Jāmī by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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Hierarchy:
032-004380767
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.i+358+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1564
End Date:
1564
Date Range:
1564
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
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
Subjects:
Persian poetry--747-1500
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 47

Contents

1 copy of Dīvān-i Jāmī by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1v-358v
Title: Dīvān-i Jāmī
Title: دیوان جامی
Author: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī عبد الرحمن جامی
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم *** هست صلاح بر خوان کریم
Explicit: چه خوش با در کاشانه غم *** دو همدم درد دل گویند باهم

This manuscript includes both parts of Jāmī's first dīvān.

The ghazals begin on f60r; the muqaṭṭaʿāt begin on f294r; the rubāʿiyyāt begin on f297v.

On f1r, there are five seals. Only one of these remains at all legible, that of (Ṣ?)amnat Khān, dated 1130AH (1717-8).

On f0r, Jones notes that the manuscript was a gift from Francis Gladwin on the 5th November 1783.

There is a blue and gold headpiece on f1v that is designed to evoke the Kaʿbah.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Thick brown woven paper.
Extent: ff.i+358+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Extensive worm damage has been mostly repaired.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 17

Hand(s)

Elegant and thin black ink nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

Gilded ruled margins.

Additions:

On f0r and f0v, Jones has written out a title page and contents, listing the subject of the first 36 odes.

Binding

Standard India Office half-leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1564-12-28 24_Jumādā al-Awwal_972 AH; 28 December 1564 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. This manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p.41 no.XLVII

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