R.8.25 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

Oriental Manuscripts

1 copy of Būstān-i Saʻdī by Saʿdī

This copy is imperfect, beginning with the tenth story of the first book and ending with the sixth line of the گفتار در موعظه و تنبه

Incipit: خورد کاروانی غم بار خویش نسوزد دلش بر خرپشت ریش

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 180

Palmer, p. 3-4

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Common Indian paper

Extent: 116 ff.

Hand(s)

Taʻlīq

Decoration

Rubrication

Additions:

At page 19 a piece of paper containing Chinese characters has been inserted

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Written on the last leaf This bought at ye sign of S. Peter & Paul in Little Britain

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World