Wadh.Minasian 231 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

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

Author: Anonymous

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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