R.13.27 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ by Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ
Title: ديوان حافظ
Incipit: زعشق ناتوان ما جمال یار مستغنی است زآب ورنگ وخال وخط چه حاجت روی زیبارا
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Rough and discoloured paper
Extent: 155 ff.
Condition
Copy is missing the first leaf.
Hand(s)
Badly written in ta᾽līq characters
Decoration
Green and red border
Additions: Marginalia
Contains many marginal corrections
History
Origin: 1556-1605 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Written in Awadh during the reign of Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, d. 1542-1605.
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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Funding of Cataloguing
Trinity College Cambridge
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