Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

RAS Persian 226. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Inshāʼ-i Harikarn by Harikaṇa, Multānī

On watermarked European paper. aIn contrast to Codrington/Reade No 225 the title Irshad al-Talibin is not mentioned in the preface of this MS (nor in many others).

Incipit: Hamd u sanay [sic for thanay, seemingly] mar hadrat-i Izad-i muta'al
Language(s): Persian.

References

As for Codrington/Reade No 225.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: Folios 24
Dimensions (leaf): 5.5.

Layout

17 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq with shikastah forms.

Binding

English cloth and marbled-paper binding, presumable twentieth-century.

History

Origin: A.H. 1195.

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir Alexander Warre Malet, Bart.

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