V. 68 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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Summary of Contents: تذکره درویش بینوا An immense anthology of Persian verse compiled by Darwish Husayn of Káshán, called Darwish Bí-Nawá, who died about 1288/1871-2. See Rieu's Persian Supple- ment, No. 115, pp. 81-82. Besides the British Museum MS. (Or. 3386) some information is also given there concerning another MS. known to Mr Sidney Churchill in the library of the late historian Lisánu'l-Mulk, poetically surnamed Sipihr. The present MS. resembles this last in including not only the earlier poets enumerated by Rieu (ff. 1-417=ff. 5-408 of this MS.) but an enormous number of minor poets (Tabaqa 1, Silsila 2) enumerated on ff. 408-412, extending to f. 484, some as ancient as Abu'l-Faraj-i-Sijzi, Abu'l-Fath al-Bustí, Shahid of Balkh, Abú Táhir al-Khátúní, and the great Avicenna (Abú 'Alí ibn Síná) himself, others at least as modern as the Şafawi period. A third section, bearing no special title, beginning on f. 484 with the Bismillah and a further list of poets mostly quite modern, and including such nineteenth-century poets as Mijmar, Wişál and Yaghmá, occupies the remainder of the volume, but appears to be incomplete, ending in the middle of the letter ص on f. 500. The following page is blank, and the remainder of the volume (ff. 501-524) contains poems, without any very obvious arrangement, and at the end some medical prescriptions, in a much more cursive hand. The volume thus has an appearance of incompleteness, and has no date or colophon. It was one of the MSS. bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920, and comprises 524 ff. of 30'5 x 21 c. and 25 ll., written as far as f. 500 in a neat Persian naskh with rubrications, the remainder in a rather cursive and slovenly ta'liq.

Title: Tadhkirah-ʼi Darvīsh Bīnavā

Title: تذكرۀ درويش بينوا

Title: Anthology of Persian poetry

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 524

Dimensions: 30.5 × 21 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

Written as far as f. 500 in a neat Persian naskh with rubrications, the remainder in a rather cursive and slovenly ta'liq.

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

One of the MSS. bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920.

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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JISC

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