Trinity College MS. 108 (Trinity College Library, Trinity College, University of Oxford)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: Two illustrated treatises on hunting compiled, apparently at the command of Maharaja Dalip Singh, by one Dīn Muḥammad in around 1850. The first is on birds of prey and their care and use. The second is on hunting with cheetahs and lynxes.
Fol. 1b-267b
Author and Compiler: Dīn Muḥammad, fl. c. 1850 دين محمد
Title: Bāznāmah
Title: بازنامه
Incipit: افتتاح ابواب سخن بنام مبدع حقیقی هنر است . . . اما بعد بر رای حداقت برای طالبان این مذاق و تالیان این اوراق مخفی و محتجب نمانده
Explicit: که تمام سیر شکاری و اوستادی در تشخیصات مرض و مراح دانی جانور است والله اعلم بالصواب
Colophon: تمام شد
Language(s): Persian

References

Fol. 267b-317a
Author: Dīn Muḥammad, fl. c. 1850 دين محمد
Title: Maqālah-'i thānavī dar tiyār (ṭiyār) kardan-i yūz va siyāh gūsh
Title: مقاله ثانوی در تیار (طیار) کردن یوز و سیاه گوش
Incipit: متضمن بر نوزده باب باب اول در معرفت یوز وسیاه گوش مشتمل بر دو فصل است
Explicit: وقتیکه شکار تماشای موی مشغول شود برق انداز یا برنه شده از عقب صید آمده تیر تیک زند مجرب است والله اعلم یالصواب
Language(s): Persian

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: European, off-white paper.
Extent: ff. i + 317 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 33.3 × 21.9 × 3.8 cm.
Dimensions (leaf): 32.2 × 19.0 cm.
Dimensions (written): 23.0 × 12.5 cm.

Layout

Single column of 11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Clear Nastaʿlīq in black ink with rubrication.

Decoration

Fols. 1b-2a with decorated headpiece in gold, red, blue, green, and pink, and floral margins. Every folio has an inner text-box border in blue, red, black, and gold. Outer border in gold. Text written within gold cloud bands throughout. Many paintings.

Binding

Half-bound in dark-brown leather and brown cloth. Gold borders on leather. Spine has 5 bands as well as gold decoration. Title "Indian System of Hawking" given on spine.

History

Origin: Punjab(?); Undated, but c. 1850. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Commissioned by and possibly made for Duleep Singh, Maharajah, 1838-1893

The collection of John Raymond Danson.

The Trinity College Manuscripts are on long-term deposit with the Bodleian Library.

Record Sources

Born digital, with reference to Trinity College's Handlist of Manuscripts.

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