Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

S. 8 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: Specimens of the Gilaki dialect. A large, thin volume of 28 ff. of 34'7 x 21 c. and about 29 ll. in double columns, written in a very cursive modern Persian nim-shikasta, containing specimens of Gilaki, the dialect spoken in Gílán, in most cases with Persian translation opposite. A few of the extracts are in verse; the prose pieces are mostly short stories, and there is no preface, doxology, title or author's name. The compilation was probably made for Mr H. L. Rabino, formerly H.B.M. Consul in Rasht, who kindly gave it to me with other papers.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 28
Dimensions: 34.7 × 21 cm.

Layout

29 lines in double columns

Hand(s)

Very cursive modern Persian nim-shikasta.

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

The compilation was probably made for Mr H. L. Rabino , formerly H.B.M. Consul in Rasht, who kindly gave it to me with other papers.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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