R.13.106 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)
Oriental Manuscripts
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1 copy of Nigārʹnāmah-ʼi Munshī by Malikʹzādah, Munshī
Title: Nigārʹnāmah-ʼi Munshī
Title: نگار‌نامۀ منشى
An epistolary manual, containing models of official letters and documents. The work is set out in two books of four and five chapters respectively.
Incipit: منشی حکمت کامله ایزدی چون بارادت لم یزلی بانشاء صحیفه شریفه پرداخت دیباچه این نوانین نامه بدیع رقم بنام نامی اسم گرامی مجموعه شامله حدوث وقدم حضرت آدم علیه السلام معنون گردانیده
Explicit: از احوال چه نوید عمر عزیز برباد رفت رقمی است استخوانی برجا مانده آه از پیری وصف از جوانی است
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 240 ff.
Hand(s)
Beautifully written Indian taʻlīq.
Decoration
Illuminated borders
Illuminated ʿunwāns
History
Origin: 1684 CE; 1095 A.H.
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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