Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 3687 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3

The five famous masnavis of Nizami. Each poem has an illuminated unwan. Date has been altered in each colophon to 1145 A.H./1735 A.D.

Incipit: خدايا جهان پادشاهی تر است ز ما خدمت آید خدائي تر است
Explicit: تمت الكتاب هذه مخزن الاسرار از دست كمترين نظام الدين در سنه يكهزار و چهل و پنج بتاریخ هفتدهم شهر ذیقعده
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 316 f.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq

History

Origin: 1045 AH; 1636 CE

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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