Wêne:Kurdish manuscript in the British Library – opening pages of Mem û Zîn by Ahmad Khani (Ehmed Xani), copied in 1221 AH 1806–7 CE (Or. 11996, ff. 1v–2r).jpg
DanasînKurdish manuscript in the British Library – opening pages of Mem û Zîn by Ahmad Khani (Ehmed Xani), copied in 1221 AH 1806–7 CE (Or. 11996, ff. 1v–2r).jpg
English: Photograph showing folio 1 verso and folio 2 recto of the British Library's manuscript copy of the Kurdish national epic, the masnavi love story Mem û Zîn by Ahmad Khani (Ehmed Xani). (Shelf mark: Or. 11996, http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-003468566)
The manuscript was copied in 1221 AH (1806/1807 CE) by ᵓabd al-Bāqī bī-Talqīn, under the patronage of Arjumand Ibrāhīm Khān. The Mem û Zîn text itself begins on folio 3 verso, where the original pagination begins. This photograph shows additional couplets of poetry and graffiti added with these folios, with dates of 1225 AH (1810/1811 CE) and 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE).
"A testament to diversity: Kurdish manuscript collections at the British Library"
Michael Erdman, Turkish and Turkic Collections Curator, British Library
British Library Asian and African studies blog, 19 November 2019
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Opening pages of a 19th-century manuscript copy of ''Mem û Zîn'' by Ahmad Khani (Ehmed Xani) (British Library: Or. 11996, ff. 1v–2r)
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