Xusraw û Şîrîn - خوسراو وو شیرین

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Add MS 7826
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1231
  • Language of Material
    • Kurdish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 151 ff Materials : Paper. Dimensions : 150 mm x 105 mm. Foliation : Western. Ruling : No text boxes, but regular text spaces of approximately 130 mm x 80 mm divided into two columns. Script : Nastᵓaliq. Ink : Black ink throughout. Binding : Western (?) black leather binding with stamped diamond pattern.

Scope and Content

A masnavi poem on the story of Khusraw and Shirin in the Gorani dialect (related to Zazaki, considered by some to be a Kurdish language). A series of additional couplets in Nastᵓaliq hand can be found on f. 1r. The manuscript was copied in 1231 AH (1816 CE) and is incomplete at the beginning. The statement of the date of copying on f. 151v has been partially effaced.

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Other Finding Aids

Formerly Or.21.A.d. See Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1888), pp. 733-734.