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1 copy of Ṣifāt al-ʻāshiqīn by Hilālī, Badr al-Dīn, d. 1528 or 9
Title: Ṣifāt al-ʻāshiqīn
Title: صفات العاشقين
A provincial Safavid illuminated manuscript of a masnavi poem with 14 miniatures
Incipit: خداوندا درى از غيب بگشای جمال شاهد لا ریب بنمای
Colophon: تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد افقر عباد الله الملك الغنى شرف الدين ابراهيم بن نعيم الدين احمد بن منعم الدين محمد الاوحدى الحسينى
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 53 ff.
Layout
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq
History
Origin: 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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