ECOM 21 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
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Contents
Summary of Contents: The five famous masnavis of Nizami. A 16th century manuscript with the opening double page of illuminations replaced in 19th century, and with 48 miniatures.
Title: Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī
Title: خمسۀ نظامی
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم هست کلید در گنج حکیم
Colophon:
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 322 ff.
Layout
Hand(s)
Fine nasta'liq
Decoration
Opening double page of illuminations replaced in 19th century.
Contains 48 miniatures.
History
Origin: 16th century AH Undated.
Provenance and Acquisition
This manuscript is part of a small collection of Islamic manuscripts held at Eton College Library, which are not part of the separate ‘Pote Collection’. (The Pote Collection was given in 1788 by Edward Ephraim Pote to Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge and is now held on loan at the Cambridge University Library).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Eton College
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