[Persian miscellany].

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Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Persian
  • Turkish
Description
1 v. (various foliations) : paper ; 212-232 x 153-176 mm. bound to 243 x 184 mm.

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    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Physical description: Four disparate fragments separated by heavy brown paper interleaves. Each fragment is foliated separately.
    • Text 1: 24 leaves; 232 x 173 mm. 9 lines per page; written in large nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining. Edges of pages have been repaired.
    • Text 2: 8 leaves; 230 x 176 mm. 11 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Arabic quotations in naskh and overlined in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal notes in English, possibly by Charles Rieu. Slight insect damage which has been repaired with tape.
    • Text 3: 6 leaves; 212 x 153 mm. 15 lines per page, in 2 columns; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization. Some damp staining and smudging, particularly on first folio.
    • Text 4: 7 leaves; 228 x 173 mm. 8 lines per page, in 2 columns; written in large nastaʻliq in black on laid European paper. Catchwords. First heading is present in red; spaces for subsequent headings left unfilled. Hemistich on fol. 7a rubbed out and rewritten.
    • Collation: i + 24 + i + 8 + i + 6 + i + 7 + i.
    • Incipit text 1: ... نمودن ها و معانى الفاظ که مشتمل بر قصه باشد و موافق قصه تعسىر وضع نمودن [...]
    • Incipit text 2: الحمد لله درجة اطلاقه المتوحدة والصلوة عليه في مرتبة تقئيده المتفردة و التحية عليه في مراتب تعيناته المتكثرة اما بعد مقتفي [؟] سالکان ملک حقيقت وعرفان سراج الدين علي خان ...
    Binding note
    Half leather European binding, pasted boards covered with marbled paper, likely 19th century.
    Language note
    Persian and Ottoman Turkish.
    Contents
    • 1. [Treatise on Hindu dramas]. Quotes text in Urdu; incomplete at end.
    • 2. Intikhāb-i baʻz̤-i iṣṭilāḥāt-i Ṣūfīyah / Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī Khān. Treats terminology from alif to ṣād; incomplete at end.
    • 3. [Tuhfe-yi Şahidî, kıta 24-27 / Şahidî İbrahim Dede]. Persian-Turkish vocabulary in verse; composed in 920 H. (Rieu, Catalogue, II, 514).
    • 4. [First few leaves of the Mas̲navī / Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī]. Possibly a calligraphic exercise.
    Provenance
    On the verso of front endpaper and first two interleaves are blue labels describing the text which follows. A later hand, that of "REB," has noted on each label: "Autograph of Professor 'Rieu' British Museum." Also on the verso of the front endpaper is the following statement: "Presented to Samuel Bochart the Celebrated Traveller and Linguist 22nd July MDCXLVIII (1648) by Ce Sarravius." However, all four fragments and the binding appear more recent than this date.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Rare Books, 2011/04/08 (2011-91).
    References
    Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 513.
    OCLC
    712143526
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