Or 15660 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Khusraw va Shirin
Contents
1 copy of Khusraw va Shīrīn by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
The famous mas̲navī allegorical romance by Niẓāmī (d. ca. 605/1209).
Other contents: numerous text corrections in margins; f. 1r, owners’ inscriptions; f. 199v, formulae of supplicatory prayer in Arabic, for the most part appallingly misspelled.
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
15 lines to a page.
Hand(s)
Good nastaʻlīq
Decoration
Episode headings in red. Text frames: black, gold, black, black, blue. Unsophisticated illuminated heading, in gold, blue, green, white, and puce, f. 1v.
Binding
Brown morocco binding, very worn.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2000-10-11
Acquired from Bonhams sale 11 October 2000, part of Lot 128.
Record Sources
Availability
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