Or 13914 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Six texts, four of which are in Judeo-Persian

1. f 1v-9v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ḥikāyat-i Sulṭān [va] Jumjumah
Title: حکایت سلطان و جمجمه

A didactic narrative poem

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 64.
2. f 9v-15r
25v-28r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Munājātnāmah
Title: مناجاتنامه

A poem about Moses (Biblical leader), here misattributed to ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230, عطار، فريد الدين

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 64.
3. f 15v-24r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A paraphrase of a religious poem

Probably from Hebrew

Language(s): Judeo-Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 65.
5. f 29v-32v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Wedding poems
Language(s): Judeo-Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 64.
6. f 33r-48r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A Persian-Malay vocabulary list
Language(s): Persian and Malay

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 37.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 48 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 14

History

Origin: 5661 ; India

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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