Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

T. 4 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: رساله در قوافی The Treatise on Rhyme composed in Persian for Mír 'Alí Shír Nawá'í in 892/
1487, by Núru'd-Din ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abdi'l-Jalil.
Begins: نورانی اختری که مطلع انوار بیانرا شاید و روحانی جوهری که مخزن اسرار جنانرا بیاراید الخ I have no note of the acquisition of this MS., which comprises 58 ff. of 18.7 ×
11.7 c. and 15 ll., and is written in an excellent sixteenth-century ta'liq with
rubrications and some marginal notes. The colophon records neither the scribe's
name nor the date of transcription, but only the date of composition, as given
above.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 58
Dimensions: 18.7 × 11.7 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

An excellent sixteenth-century ta'liq with rubrications and some marginal notes.

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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