MS 232 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of Dīvān-i by Kamāl al-Dīn Ismāʻīl Iṣfahānī
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper tinted red (now pink) and green
Extent: 172 + 62 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 92 × 52 mm.
Dimensions (written): 75 × 38 mm.
Layout
The text of the poems is written in 2 columns, 15 lines per page.
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Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: 13th century (?) CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Given by the Rev. John Orman, M.A., Trinity College, Chaplain to the Cambridge Union, 1826.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Montague Rhodes James "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum", Cambridge University Press, 1895; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.
Availability
The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.
Funding of Cataloguing
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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