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Subject(s)

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203—Makhzan al-asrār [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Elucidation of 1310 difficult verses from Niẓāmī's Makhzan al-asrār.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 266b.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in black and red with outer marginal black border. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining; numerous paper repairs, mostly marginal, particularly to leaves at beginning and end of ms. Last leaf torn with small amount of text missing. Notes and drawings on fol. ia-1a. In fair condition.
• Origin: 27 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1051 H [29 March 1642] (fol. 266b).

Binding note

Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; marbled paper doublures on covers and cloth doublure on flap.

Language note

Persian.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, V, 481-2

OCLC

815971716

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