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Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous manuscript bearing the English title: Miscellaneous Persian Poetry ＆Prose, Extracts from Poems ＆Forms of Commissions, Deeds, etc.

1. ff. 4v-5r

Author: Kātibī Turshī̄zī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. ca. 1434 محمد بن عبد الله كاتبي ترشيزی نیشابوری

Title: Poem

Incipit: The first hemistich in f. 4v reads: در طريق عاشقی آز رزمی بايد كشيد

Language(s): Persian

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2. ff. 6v-35r

Author: Ẓuhūrī, Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad, 1537 or 8-1616 or 17 نور الدين محمد ظهورى

Title: Sāqī'nāmah

Title: ساقی نامه

Title: Extracts from the work

Incipit: The first verse in f. 6v reads: ثنا میكنم ایزد پاك را ثریا ده طارم تاك را

Language(s): Persian

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3. ff. 45r-88r

Title: Collection of copies of fermans

Language(s): Persian

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4. ff. 98v-99v

Title: Document issued by the chancellery of Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan (1618-1707) محمد اورنگزيب

Language(s): Persian

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Physical Description

Form: other

Support: Oriental paper

Extent: 156 ff. [57 of them blank]

Dimensions (leaf): 23,8

Dimensions (written):

Foliation: Foliation supplied by the cataloguer

Collation

Due to the tight modern binding it is not possible to describe the collation of the quires

Catchwords in each verso from ff. 6b-34b

Condition

Good condition

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʿlīq, black ink

Decoration

Binding

Modern binding in red leather with flap

Seal(s):

Wax seal attached to f. 98v

History

Origin: 1118 ca. AH; 1707 ca. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The manuscript was the property of George Lewis, d. 1729, as stated in a seal bearing his name in Arabic characters and the date 1707

Presented by George Lewis, d. 1729

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Jesus College

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