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RSPA 59
- Record Id:
- 032-004380779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004380779
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100169708454.0x000070
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 59
- Title:
- 1 copy of Javāmiʿ al-Ḥikāyāt by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAwfī
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004380779", "parent" : "#", "text" : "RSPA 59: 1 copy of Javāmiʿ al-Ḥikāyāt by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAwfī" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004380779
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004380779
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- ff.iii+265+iv
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1300-1399
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- ʻAwfī, Muḥammad, fl 1228,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066916530,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59962391
ʻAwfī, Muḥammad, fl 1228,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066916530,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59962391 - Subjects:
- Persian literature--747-1500
- TEI:
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India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
RSPA 59
Contents
1 copy of Javāmiʿ al-Ḥikāyāt by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAwfī
Language(s): Persian
ff. 1v-265rTitle: Javāmiʿ al-ḤikāyātTitle: جوامع الحکایاتIncipit: حمد و ثنا مبدعی را که از بدایت صباح وجودExplicit: سحر دامح جوانی بدانست داد و رها کرد با برفتColophon: تمت الکتابQism 1 begins on f6v; qism 2 begins on f146v; qism 3 begins on f194r and qism 4 begins on f231r.
Ff5r-6v is a table of contents of the manuscript.
This manuscript is composed of three separate hands. The first four folios of this manuscript replace the lost folios from the original. These are of an eighteenth-century style. The middle section (ff5-263) is believed to be of the fourteenth century by Denison Ross and Browne. The final two folios are also replacements, and are also later than the middle section, but likely earlier than the first section.
There is a seal on f7r which dates to 1179AH (1765-6AD) under the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafā. There is another, highly stylised, seal on f231r.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: The first few folios are on a thin cream woven paper. The middle section is made up of a damaged thick brown woven paper and the final section a much lighter woven paper.Extent: ff.iii+265+ivDimensions (leaf): 260 × 220 mm.Dimensions (written): 215 × 150 mm.Foliation:European numerals in pencil at the beginning of the manuscript. Thereafter, Perso-Arabic numerals in pencil.
Condition
Mixed condition. Some damage to the edge of the folios.
Layout
Columns:1
Hand(s)
The first hand is a neat black naskh. The second is a classic naskh script with rubrications and the final section is a messy black-ink nastaʿlīq-influenced naskh script.
Decoration
Additions:There are marginal comments in a range of hands on almost every page of the manuscript.
Binding
India Office black half-leather binding with wine coloured marbled endpapers.
Accompanying Material
History
Origin: 1300-1399 14th century CE ; IndiaProvenance 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 Sir William 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.53-4 no. LIXAvailability
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