MS. S. Digby Or. 192 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection
Contents
Volume 1 of a copy of Mirʼāt al-ʻālam.
Title: Mirʼāt al-ʻālam
Title: مرآت العالم
Language(s): Persian
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم برترين كوهر كه تاجداران كشور فصاحت و تخت نشينان خطۀ بلاغت
Explicit: نمایش هفتم در ذکر چنکیز خان و فرزندانش مشتملبر هفت نمود نمود اول||
This volume ends at Book III, Chapter viii.
For Volume 2, see MS. S. Digby Or. 193.
Written on fol. 1a 'Kitāb-i tārīkh'.
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 292 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 22.8 × 15.8 cm.
Dimensions (written): 16.5 × 9 cm.
Layout
13 lines per page.
12Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq-Shikastah.
Binding
Quarter-bound in maroon leather and black cloth. Gold bands on spine with words 'MIR'ĀTU'L-'ĀLAM VOL. I' blocked in gold.
History
Origin:
Undated.
Provenance and Acquisition
A. H. Harley, Calcutta, 1930.
Ex libris A. H. Harley.
The collections of Mr. Simon Digby.
Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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