V. 25 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: دیوان خواجوی کرمانی The Diwán of Khwájú of Kirmán, who died about 742/1341-2. See my Persian
Literature under Tartar Dominion, pp. 222-229, and references there given. This MS., bought at the auction of the Fiott-Hughes MSS. (No. 75 of the
Catalogue) on June 5, 1890, for £3. 7s. 6d., as already mentioned above in the article
on V. 22, comprises 155 ff. of 17'6 x 13'2 c. and 15 ll., and is written in the same
curious, angular nasta'liq as its companion volume, V. 22, but has the fuller colophon on 152: كتبه الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالی درویش حافظ شیرازی غفر الله له ولجميع 179المسلمين سنه The total number of verses is given as 4000.
Literature under Tartar Dominion, pp. 222-229, and references there given. This MS., bought at the auction of the Fiott-Hughes MSS. (No. 75 of the
Catalogue) on June 5, 1890, for £3. 7s. 6d., as already mentioned above in the article
on V. 22, comprises 155 ff. of 17'6 x 13'2 c. and 15 ll., and is written in the same
curious, angular nasta'liq as its companion volume, V. 22, but has the fuller colophon on 152: كتبه الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالی درویش حافظ شیرازی غفر الله له ولجميع 179المسلمين سنه The total number of verses is given as 4000.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 155
Dimensions: 17.6 × 13.2 cm.
Layout
15 lines
Hand(s)
Curious,angular nasta'liq.
V. 25, is in the same writing and bears the name of the same scribe, with the addition of the date 869/1464-5.
History
Origin: 869 AH; 1469 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
This MS., bought at the auction of the Fiott-HughesMSS. (No. 75 of the Catalogue) on June 5, 1890, for £3. 7s. 6d., as already mentioned above in the article on V. 22
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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