Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ECOM 26 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Eton Windsor

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Yūsuf u Zulaykhā by Jāmī, 1414-1492
A Northern Indian illuminated manuscript of a romantic masnavi poem with numerous miniatures
Incipit: الهى غنچۀ امید بگشای گلی از روضۀ جاوید نمای
Colophon:
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 162 ff.

Layout

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq

Decoration

Illuminated

with numerous miniatures

History

Origin: Undated. Nothern India

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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