V. 27 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: مهر و مشتری تألیف عصار تبریزی The romance of Mihr u Mushtarí by 'Aşşár of Tabriz, who completed it on
Shawwál 10, 778/Feb. 20, 1377, only a year or two before his death. See Rieu's
Persian Catalogue, pp. 626-627, and, for a full analysis of the poem, Sir Gore
Ouseley's Biographical Notices of Persian Poets, pp. 201-226. This MS. I bought in Constantinople with two others for 200 piastres on April
23, 1908. It comprises 173 ff. (of which f. 1, containing the opening lines of the
poem, is missing) of 24'3 x 16'5 c. and 12 ll., is written in a fairly good ta'liq, and
is without date or colophon.
Shawwál 10, 778/Feb. 20, 1377, only a year or two before his death. See Rieu's
Persian Catalogue, pp. 626-627, and, for a full analysis of the poem, Sir Gore
Ouseley's Biographical Notices of Persian Poets, pp. 201-226. This MS. I bought in Constantinople with two others for 200 piastres on April
23, 1908. It comprises 173 ff. (of which f. 1, containing the opening lines of the
poem, is missing) of 24'3 x 16'5 c. and 12 ll., is written in a fairly good ta'liq, and
is without date or colophon.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 173
Dimensions: 24.3 × 16.5 cm.
Layout
12 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a fairly good ta'liq.
History
Origin: undated
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased in Constantinople with two others for 200 piastres on April 23, 1908.
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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