RAS Persian 294. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of A devotional poem (8ff) followed by passages selected from the Mathnawi by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273

Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 جلال الدين رومى

Title: A devotional poem (8ff) followed by passages selected from the Mathnawi.

On back cover: Book of Hindustani poetry - found in Goozerat 0n the 22nd of February 1849 - the day after the great action at that place E?D.E? Money. Inside front cover of the outer casing, pasted slip: Presented by E. Baverstock Esq to the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society through W?S? Arbuthnot. The first poem ends with a kind of dedication to a Muhammad Shah. Ruled margins. Headings and some punctuation in red.

Incipit: Incipit (a): Chashm bigshay jilwah-i dildar Incipit (b): Hamd-i mahmudi kih dar jumlah suwar

Language(s): Persian.

References

As for Codrington/Reade No 291.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 29 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 6.5

Layout

13 lines in double column on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Inner simple leather and board binding, stuck into an English red cloth casing, now separated. The casing has the title etc tooled in English on the back (or front) and spine.

History

Origin: Saturday 4 Muharram A.H. 1255 (12 March 1839).

Provenance and Acquisition

Provenance: E. Baverstock.

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