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1 copy of Zirāʻat-nāmah

Author: Anonymous

Title: Zirāʻat-nāmah

Title: زراعت نامه

Folio one, recto: a) signature: C.J. Doyle etc b) Stamp, the name entered in ink: Presented to the ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY by Colonel Doyle. English marbled paper cover.

Incipit: Az hikmat-i rabbani waz faid-i khur u baran Has the same incipit as the work listed by Storey under Kitab-i Zira'at, but in the colophon of this MS the work is referred to as Zira'at-namah. A treatise on Indian agriculture.

Language(s): Persian.

References

Storey, II, iii, pp. 376, 378.

Entered in the Donations Register for 15 March 1834. No 17 in list of Persian MSS.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Dimensions (leaf): 9.5

Layout

13 lines to the page

Hand(s)

Shikastah Amiz Suhan La'l

History

Origin: India. Thursday 19 April 1816 and 8 Baisakh (the Hindu month) A.H. 1223.

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Colonel C.J. Doyle.

Availability

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