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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
A Northern Indian illuminated manuscript of a romantic masnavi poem with numerous miniatures
Title: Yūsuf u Zulaykhā
Title: یوسف و زلیخا
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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