MS. Hertford 37 (Hertford College Library, Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
A copy of Abū Bakr Shāshī's Jawāhir al-laʼālī i.e. selections from Rūmī's Mathnawī.
Title: Jawāhir al-laʼālī
Title: جواهر اللآلى
Incipit: بشنو از نى چون حکابت میکند
Extracts from the Mathnawī of Rūmī.
Language(s): Persian
References
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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