One incomplete copy of a غراٸب الصغر Ġarā'ibu l-ṣiġar, the first of the Chaghatay dīwāns of مير على شير نوائى Mīr ‘Alī Šēr Nawā'ī's four-part series, خزاٸن المعانی Ḫazā'inu l-ma‘ānī. Stops at what is canonically known as the 10th rubā‘ī of the last qism ([...] نوش ایلار ایمیش قدحنی جانانه تولا -- folio 139a, line 4), so missing just over 100 rubā‘īat the end. Lacks the mixed poetical/prose dēbāčawhich accompanies some versions of the text. Frontispiece gives the title as دیوان آمیر نوآیی. — Multiple dates; likely Herat, as this is where the scribe is known to have been active.

Title

One incomplete copy of a غراٸب الصغر Ġarā'ibu l-ṣiġar, the first of the Chaghatay dīwāns of مير على شير نوائى Mīr ‘Alī Šēr Nawā'ī's four-part series, خزاٸن المعانی Ḫazā'inu l-ma‘ānī. Stops at what is canonically known as the 10th rubā‘ī of the last qism ([...] نوش ایلار ایمیش قدحنی جانانه تولا -- folio 139a, line 4), so missing just over 100 rubā‘īat the end. Lacks the mixed poetical/prose dēbāčawhich accompanies some versions of the text. Frontispiece gives the title as دیوان آمیر نوآیی. — Multiple dates; likely Herat, as this is where the scribe is known to have been active.

Shelfmark

MS. Elliott 90

Place of origin

likely Herat, as this is where the scribe is known to have been active.

Date

No date given, but before the death of its calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mašhadī, i.e. not after 1513

Language

Chagatai

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

139 folios

Hands

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Sulṭān ʻAlī Mašhadī.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece.

First two pages richly embellished.

Ornaments in gold, purple, and orange throughout.

Acquisition

Presented to the Bodleian Library by J.B. Elliott, in 1859.

Provenance

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley .

The collections of John Bardoe Elliott .

Subject

Chagatai poetry