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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Tadhkirat al-Shu'ara' or Tadhkirah-i Dawlatshahi by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī, d. ca. 1494

Author: Dawlatshāh Samarqandī, d. ca. 1494

Title: Tadhkirat al-Shu'ara' or Tadhkirah-i Dawlatshahi

Various prayers, historical notes and other marginalia on front flyleaf, f1ab, occasionally in margins, final folio verso. On f1a there is one describing the effects of an earthquake affecting part of Transoxiana on 6 Rabi' II A.H. 1203. A biographical dictionary-cum-anthology of Persian poets. Headings and punctuation in red. The margins of a few pages have repeated drawings of the sun in red ink.

Incipit: Incipit:Tahmidi ki shahbaz-i buland-parwaz-i andishah

Language(s): Persian.

References

Storey, i, pp.784-9.

Rieu, i, p. 364.

Ethe, No 656.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: Folios 124
Dimensions (leaf): 9.75 × 7.25 in.

Layout

18 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Green and brown leather binding with blind- and red-stamped decoration. Probably made in Bukhara.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Provenance: Alexander Burnes. (So Handwritten Catalogue)

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