Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

D. 3 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: مرصاد العباد من المبدا الى المعاد. A fine old copy of the Mirsada l-Ibád of Najmu'd-Din Dáya, who completed
it at Síwás in Asia Minor in Rajab 620/1223. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue,
pp. 38-39. In this MS. the author's name is given as follows (f. 231a):
ابو بكر بن عبد الله بن محمّد بن شاها وور الاسدي الرازي This beautiful old MS. was transcribed in Cairo and finished on 10 Jumádà 11,
768/11 Feb., 1367, by Hájji Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'd an-Nakhjuwání.
It contains 233 ff. of 25 x 18 c. and 17 ll.; large, clear naskh with rubrications.
This was one of 47 MSS. bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in
January, 1920.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 233
Dimensions: 25 × 18 cm.

Layout

17 lines

Hand(s)

Large, clear naskh with rubrications.

History

Origin: 768 AH; 1367 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This was one of 47 MSS. bought of the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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