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Masnaviyat-i Zulali

Contents

Summary of Contents: Masnavī poems by Zulālī Khvānsarī, which perhaps should be titled Sab‘a sayyāra, as in the case of BL Or. 10939 (Handlist 1895-1966, p. 71), which contains the following poems as mentioned in the prologue to his poem Maḥmūd va Ayāz: Ḥasan-i Gilūsūz, Shu‘lah-’i dīdār, Maykhānah, Zarrah va Khvurshīd, Āzar va Samandar, Sulaymān-nāmah and Maḥmūd va Ayāz.
1. ff 1v-3r
Author: Zulālī Khvānsārī, -1615 زلالى خوانسارى‏
Title: Gilūsūz

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
2. ff 18v-22r
Author: Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631?‏ داماد، محمد باقر بن محمد‏
Title: Mashāriq al-anvār
Title: مشارق الانوار

Language(s): Persian.
Filiation:
3. ff. 22v-24r
Author: Zulālī Khvānsārī, -1615 زلالى خوانسارى
Title: Shu‘lah-’i dīdār
Title: شعلۀ دیدار

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
4. ff 24v-??
Author: Zulālī Khvānsārī, -1615 زلالى خوانسارى
Title: Maḥmūd va Ayāz
Title: محمود واياز

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

Language(s): Persian.
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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support:
Extent: 74 ff.
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Dimensions (written):

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.

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Binding

Boards.

History

Origin: 1700 - 1899 CE  12th/18th or 13th/19th century. ; India

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

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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