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1 copy of Maykhānah by Qazvīnī, ʻAbd al-Nabī Fakhr al-Zamānī, active 1609-1631

Author: Qazvīnī, ʻAbd al-Nabī Fakhr al-Zamānī, active 1609-1631 عبد النبي فخر الزماني قزويني

Title: Maykhānah

Title: ميخانه

Incipit: بنام خداى كه فكر و خرد نيارد كه بر گنه از پی برد

Language(s): Persian

References

Storey I, No. 1115.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 154

Dimensions (leaf): 28.8 × 17.5 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; rubrics; old European paper with armorial watermark; defective at the beginning (one page?) and end (last poet described ʻAlī Aḥmad Muhrkan)

Binding

English leather (c. 1800, inscr. Magdalen Hall Library – cancellation on end paper “sold by order”), bound with another work – folios 1-154

History

Origin: 17th-18th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

sale of Phillips, Son and Neale, April 1966; formerly in the library of Magdalen Hall Oxford (=Hertford College) by whom it was –unaccountably- sold.

Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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