V. 6 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: حديقة الحقيقة A good copy of the well-known Hadiqatu'l-Haqiqa, or "Garden of Truth," composed in A.D. 1131 by Saná'í of Ghazna or Balkh, who is accounted the first of the three great mystical poets of Persia, the others being Shaykh Farídu'd-Din Attár and Jalalu'd-Din Rúmi. See vol. II of my Literary History of Persia, PP. 317-322, etc. This MS., which I bought of Messrs R. D. Dickinson of 89 Farringdon Street, E.C., on March 30, 1899, for a guinea, comprises 316 ff. (some, such as ff. 312-315, missing) of 21 x 12'5 c. and 15 ll., written in a good and clear ta'liq with rubrications, undated, the first two pages ornamented with floral designs in gold.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 316
Dimensions: 21 × 12.5 cm.
Layout
15 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a good and clear ta'liq with rubrications.
History
Origin: undated
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased from Messrs R. D. Dickinson of 89 Farringdon Street, E.C., on March 30, 1899, for a guinea.
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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Funding of Cataloguing
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