Wadh.Minasian 231 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A religious versified work in Persian and Turkish. It can be a semi-translation of Khāvar'nāmah of Ibn Ḥisām Khusafī, mainly because its incipit is quite similar to the incipit of Khāvar'nāmah.
Language(s): Persian and Turkish
Poetry
Title: Khāvar'zamīn
Title: خاورزمین
Incipit: هذا کتاب خاورزمین. بسمله. ابتداء قلّام به نام ذوالجلال / اول کریم اول رحیم بیزوال
Explicit: … گیردی شهرهٔ لشکر اسلامیان / گتدی مالک ایوینه اندر زمان ||
Physical Description
Support: Western paper (watermark), natural buff, regular thickness; rubricated titles; final and central folios rebound.
Extent: 132 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 16.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 15 × 9.5 cm.
Layout
17 lines per page
Hand(s)
Cursive Nastaʿalīq, one hand, regular
Additions: Explanatory notes in marginalia. Rectangular stamp: خدارحم .
Binding
Simple pasteboard, 16 × 17 cm, front + back cover, double layer pasteboard
Condition
Back bone mending by brown leather.
History
Origin: Unknown place of origin; Muharram 1284 AH; 1868 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.
Record Sources
This record was created based on the information published in: Mir-Ansari, Ali, Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Wadham College (University of Oxford)
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