Majmua

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 8769
  • Dates of Creation
    • 17th century-18th century
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Chagatai Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex ff 81. Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 81 ff. Dimension : 210 mm x 160 mm. Pricking and Ruling : Black ink with red catchwords and underlining. Script : Central Asian naskh. Binding : Wooden binding.

Scope and Content

A collection of nine texts:. (1) ff 1v-32r : Bāb 5 of an unidentified work, beginning with a commentary upon Qur'ān 9:72 completed in 860 AH (1455-46 CE); with the following notes on ff 32v-34r;. (2) f 32v : An account of how Adam was instructed by Gabriel to perform ghusl (major ablution);. (3) f 33r : A note mentioning the year 1789 CE;. (4) f 34r : Passage from a work on eschatology concerning punishment for sins;. (5) ff 34v-38v : An almanac in Persian with notes on stars in Chagatai;. (6) ff 43v-58v : Munabbihāt (منبهات), a didactic work likely by Nasafī, translated into Chagatai, on Islamic principles and ethics. Translated from the Arabic (but not the Hadith work al-Munabbihāt attributed to Ibn Ḥajar al-'Askalānī) and incomplete at the end;. (7) ff 59v-71r : Pandnāma, Chagatai translation of the Persian didactic poem misattributed to Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār;. (8) ff 73r-v : Notes about praying in the mosque, as well as various writing exercises, one of which (f 73v) is dated 1789 CE;. (9) ff 74v-81r : A fragment of a mesnevi in Old Anatolian Turkish or early Ottoman Turkish, likely copied in the 17th century CE. Apart from text 9, the items in this volume were likely copied in the 18th century CE.

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Acquisition Information

Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baroness Zouche on 13 October 1917.