MS. S. Digby Or. 24 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection
Contents
1 copy of Maykhānah by Qazvīnī, ʻAbd al-Nabī Fakhr al-Zamānī, active 1609-1631
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.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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