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Summary of Contents: دیوان میر علی شیر نوائی The Chaghatáy or Eastern Turki poems of Nawá'í, which is the pen-name of Mír 'Alí Shír (d. 906/1501), the accomplished minister of Sultán Husayn ibn Mansúr ibn Bayqará. See Persian Literature under Tartar Dominion, p. 505, and Rieu, B.M.T.C., pp. 294-298. Ff. 1-21. Preface in prose, beginning: فصاحت دیوانی نینک غزل سرالاری اشرقت من عکس شمس الكأس انوار الهدا Ff. 24-305. Ghazals in alphabetical order, beginning: Ff. 306 of 22 x 12.7 cm and 9 ll. Fair ta'liq between gold and coloured borders. Copied at Kashghar in 1241/1825-6. Professor Browne has written on the fly-leaf, "A Christmas Present to me from Professor A. von Le Coq of Berlin, 25. xii. 1923," and the latter's book-plate with inscription signed "A. v. Le Coq" is pasted inside the cover.
Author: Nawá'í (Mír 'Alí Shír), d. 906/1501
Title: Díván-i Nawá'í
Title: دیوان میر علی شیر نوائی

See Browne, Persian Literature under Tartar Dominion, p. 505, and Rieu, B.M.T.C., pp. 294-298. Ff. 1-21 comprise a prose preface; ghazals in alphabetical order follow on ff. 24-305.

Incipit: فصاحت دیوانی نینک غزل سرالاری اشرقت من عکس شمس الكأس انوار الهدا
Language(s): Chaghatay Turkish

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 306
Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 12.7 cm.

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9 lines

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Fair ta'liq between gold and coloured borders.

History

Origin: 1241/1825-6 CE ; Kashghar

Provenance and Acquisition

Professor Browne has written on the fly-leaf, "A Christmas Present to me from Professor A. von Le Coq of Berlin, 25 Dec. 1923," and the latter's book-plate with inscription signed "A. v. Le Coq" is pasted inside the cover.

Passed to Cambridge University Library in 1936 (the "Browne Bequest").

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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