MS. Hertford 37 (Hertford College Library, Hertford College, University of Oxford)

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A copy of Abū Bakr Shāshī's Jawāhir al-laʼālī i.e. selections from Rūmī's Mathnawī.

Author and Abridger: Abū Bakr Shāshī ابو بكر شاشى
Author and Bibliographic antecedent: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 جلال الدين الرومي، محمد بن محمد، 604-672 هـ
Title: Jawāhir al-laʼālī
Title: جواهر اللآلى
Incipit: بشنو از نى چون حکابت میکند

Extracts from the Mathnawī of Rūmī.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 2358

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 64
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 105 mm.

Layout

Two columns; 15 lines per page. 160 × 70 mm.

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

No decoration.

Binding

19th-century Library binding of tan leather over boards. Spine has 7 bands.

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

Stamp of Claud Martin, d. 1800.

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 1889-1953

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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