MS. Hertford 31 (Hertford College Library, Hertford College, University of Oxford)
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A copy of Majmūʻah-ʼi Khānī fī ghurrat al-maʻānī [a sunnite legal work in Persian].
Title: مجموعۀ خانی فی غرة المعانىIncipit: اجمعين اما بعد دعا گوی مسلمنان اضعف...Incomplete at begining and end. Contains 50 chapters. The author quotes Ibn Kathīr's al-Bidāyah wa-al-nihāyah, and Abū Layth al-Samarqandī's Khizānat al-fiqh.
Language(s): Persian, ArabicReferences
Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 199 [first two and last two leaves are flyleaves].Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 120 mm.Layout
One column throughout. 14 lines per page. 150 × 78 mm.
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʿlīq in black ink at beginning, changing to Shikastah towards the middle and end. Some rubrication of chapter headings and underlining in red ink.
Decoration
No decoration.
Binding
19th-century Library binding of tan leather over boards. Spine has 5 bands.
History
Origin: Undated.Provenance and Acquisition
Stamp of Claud Martin.
Ex libris Colleg. Hertf. apud Oxon.
The Hertford College Manuscripts are on long-term deposit with the Bodleian Library.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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