RAS Persian 110. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Siyar al-Muta'akhkhirin by Ghulām Husain Khān, Ṭabaṭāḅāī, b. 1727 or 8
Title: Siyar al-Muta'akhkhirin.
Upside down inside front, originally back, cover, crested bookplate of N.B. Edmonstone. A history of the Muhammadan power in India, from A.H. 1118 to 1195. Contains sections 1 and 2 of the work as described by Storey. Headings and punctuation in red.
Incipit: Sipas-i bi-qiyas u sitayish-i sarmadi-asas
Language(s): Persian.
References
Storey, i, pp. 625-640.
Rieu, i, p 280.
Ethe, Nos 417.
For Edmonstone's bequest see the donations register under November 6 1841, p. 408 and J.R.A.S., viii, Annual Report, p. x, Proceedings, p. xxxi.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: Folios 481
Dimensions (leaf): 10.5 × 7.75 in.
Layout
21 lines on a page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
Half-leather European binding, with tooling on spince and blind-tooled edges. At some stage replace back to front and upside down,
History
Origin: The date at the end, seven days before the end of Ramadan 1195, is that of the original composition and not of the copying.
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