Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS McClean 198 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Mavāhib-ilāhī by Muʻīn al-Dīn Yazdī, d. 1387

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 98 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.

Layout

No borders around the textblock, 21 lines.

Hand(s)

No decorations but a large number of comments on the margins.

Decoration

Binding

Seal(s):

A large number of seals at the beginning and throughout the MS.

History

Origin: 778.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed by Mr Frank McClean in 1904.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on James Montague Rhodes "A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum", Cambridge University Press, 1912; 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.

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