RAS Persian 182. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Nuzhat al-Qulub / Written on the instructions of Shaikh 'Abd al-Rasul by Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340

Author: Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340 حمدالله مستوفى قزوينى

Title: Nuzhat al-Qulub / Written on the instructions of Shaikh 'Abd al-Rasul.

Front flyleaf, recto: Presented by Sir John Malcolm May 19. 1827 Cosmography. Headings and punctuation in red. A few diagrams. Gaps left for astrological illustrations.

Incipit: Chun wahib-i mawahib-i bi-'illat

Language(s): Persian.

References

Storey, ii, pp. 129-131.

Rieu, i, pp. 418-19.

Malcolm's gift is noted the Donations Register for 19 May 1827 and in the Society's Transactions for 1830, pp. xcix-c.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: Folios 170

Dimensions (leaf): 12.25

Layout

27 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq. Ghulam 'Ali b. Muhammad Katib Shirazi

Binding

Plain dark brown leather binding.

History

Origin: Sunday 2 Sha'ban A.H. 1219 (6 November 1804).

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir John Malcolm. (In the list of donors in Morley's handwritten catalogue his no 31 is said to have been presented by Sir John Markham, but the inscription in the MS names Malcolm.

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