Or 9819 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Oriental Manuscripts

A volume of extracts mainly poetical

1 copy of Naṣīḥatnāmah by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230

1v-23v ff

Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 فرید الدین عطار

followed by various Arabic poems and astronomical tables, ending with Turkish poems by Bāqī, 1526-1600 باقی , Rūḥī روحی , and others

Language(s): Persian, Turkish and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see Glyn Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1895-1966. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968, p.83.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 115 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 19.5 × 12.7 cm.

History

Origin: 17th-18th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Subjects

Persian poetry

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