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1 copy of Manṭiq al-ṭayr by 2 authors

Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين

Title: Manṭiq al-ṭayr

Title: منطق الطير

According to a note written on the first folio, the manuscript is dated 1117

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 577-8.

For a more detailed description see Titley 1977, page 35.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 208 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 24.1 × 15.9 in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Persian nastaʿlīq

Decoration

One ʿunwān

Gold-ruled margins

9 miniatures

f. 28v The darvīsh kneeling before the princess he loved.

f. 30v The hoopoe and the peacock.

f. 49r Shaikh Ṣan'ān gazing at the Greek Christian maiden asleep on her balcony.

f. 68r Sultan Maḥmūd helping a boy to catch fish (discoloured).

f. 75v Jibrāīl, having been sent by God to seek a follower of God in Christian monastery, sees a man kneeling before a golden idol.

f. 84r The story of the two foxes. A prince hunting with falcon and cheetah.

f. 91r The sage telling the king about the crevice in a wall of a palace through which 'Izrā'īl, the Angel of Death, could enter.

f. 151r Sultan Maḥmūd and Ayāz on their way to play polo waylaid by a darvīsh who was infatuated with Ayāz.

f. 181v The prince waylaid by a darvīsh who was so infuriated that he died.

Additions:

Gold-sprinkled paper

Binding

Bound in stamped leather

History

Origin: 16th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This manuscript had been the property of Allāh Verdī Khān, the late Beglerbegī of Shīrvān

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Ch. Rieu: Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London, 1879-1883

Availability

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