Details

Subject(s)

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203—Iskandarnāmah [Browse]
• نظامى گنجوى، 1140 or 41-1202 or 3.—اسکندرنامه [Browse]

Contains

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. Iskandarnāmah. [Browse]
• نظامى گنجوى، 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. اسکندرنامه. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the introduction to the first part of Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Iskandarnāmah; the author's sources include the commentaries by Naṣīr, ʻAbd al-Khāliq, Muḥyī al-Dīn (listed in Storey, Persian literature, V, 490, no. 2), and Hārūn Muttaqī (fol. 77b). A note by a later hand in pencil on fol. 78b attributes the text to one Nuʻmān Mullā, but this is not confirmed in the text. Text is preceded by a schematic diagram of the Kaʻbah on fol. 1a, and followed on fol. 77b-78a by a short commentary on the verse which begins "biyā bāghbān ..." from the Iskandarnāmah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 77b.
• Physical description: 20-26 lines per page; written in small, casual nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; original text overlined or introduced as "bayt." A few marginal notes. Heavy damp staining and some insect damage in margins.
• Origin: Copy completed by Khākpā-yi ʻĀlimān Muḥammad Allāh valad-i Anvār Allāh (fol. 77b). Possibly 18th century?
• Incipit (after opening verse): بدانکه در خداىا الف براى نداست اى خداى و الف بر چهار قسم رتبت

Binding note

Half leather with paper covers, damaged; paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2011/12/21 (2012-51).

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ-i Sikandarnāmah
• شرح سکندرنامه

OCLC

775603548

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