MS. Turk. e. 59 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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This section contains excerpts from the two earlier parts of Nawā'ī's Dēwān -- i.e. Badā'i‘u l-bidāya and Nawādiru l-nihāya -- plus at least two of the four works which comprise his later suite, Ḫazā'inu l-ma‘ānī: Nawādiru l-šabāb and Fawā'idu l-kibar. The only discernable excerpt from Nawādiru l-šabāb appears on a separate page (folio 252b) after 5 blank pages at the very end of this section, though in the same hand as most of the preceding text in the manuscript. The order of the ghazals in the poetic parts of this whole section is mixed, with some displaying bayts from different works combined into one. It ends abruptly (on folios 241b-249b) in the middle of a sentence of what is canonically considered the prose dēbāča to Badā'i‘u l-bidāya.

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The last 5 lines of this section (folio 254a, lines 12-16) appear to be written later, certainly with a different pen and ink but possibly by the same hand.

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This note seems to concern a debt of a certain Tuqun Āḫūndnïng oġlï Munīb توقون اخوندنینک اوغلی منیب and is witnessed by, inter alia, Ḥizbullāh Ḥājī حزب الله حاجی and Fāżil Āḫūnd فاضِل اخوند . A tamġa to the right, likely indicating the name of the authority who recorded the transaction, has yet to be examined in detail.

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