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1 copy of the first volume of the Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī
Title: Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī
Title: شاهنامۀ فردوسی
A Northern Indian manuscript of the first volume of the Shahnamah, written in bold nasta'liq script
Incipit: به نام خداوند جان و خرد
Colophon:
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff.
Layout
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq
History
Origin: Undated.
Provenance and Acquisition
This manuscript is part of a small collection of Islamic manuscripts held at Eton College Library, which are not part of the separate ‘Pote Collection’. (The Pote Collection was given in 1788 by Edward Ephraim Pote to Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge and is now held on loan at the Cambridge University Library).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Eton College
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