Or 16047 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Masnaviyat-i Zulali
Contents
Other BL copies of Maḥmūd va Ayāz: Add. 16797, Add. 18678 (incomplete), Or. 292, Or. 350, Or. 9816, and (together with Maykhānah and Zarrah va Khvurshīd) Add. 18807
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
14 lines.
Hand(s)
Nasta‘līq
Decoration
Multiple text frames: black, gold, yellow, red, green and black. Gold and polychrome floral motifs and designs of Central Asian type on most folios. Illuminated text openings on f. 1v-2r and 11v-12r. Illuminated poetical dā’ira, f. 9v. Illumination over opening of text on f. 3v and 18v.
Binding
Boards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly MS. 315 in the collection of the British Turcologist C.S. Mundy.
2004-03
Purchased from Sam Gedge; Mar 2004
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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