RAS Persian 160. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Taẕkirah-’i Muqīmkhānī by Muḥammad Yūsuf ibn Khvājah Baqā, 18th cent. .
Folio one, verso, above text: A history of the Kingdoms of ? from the age of Baber to the time of Soban Koli Khan the grandfather of Abool faiz Khan the last of the house of Timour - purchased in Bochara Author Mokim Khan [sic] Alex? Burnes Bochara July 1832. A History of the Uzbek Khans of Mawara al-Nahr.. Headings and punctuation in red. Some headings omitted.
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Physical Description
Layout
13 lines on a page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
Green leather binding, presumably Bukhara with blind-tooling and coloured stamped cartouches. The central cartouches with legend: Waqif-i in nuskha az bahr-i khuda Bi Bi? bint Sayyida Khal Majid? 1225 [sic].
History
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