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1 copy of Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī

Author: Firdawsī فردوسی

Title: Shāhnāmah

Title: شاهنامه

Folio 1a: Stamp for presentation to the Society, the name left blank. Flyleaf after text, verso: a) Note of ownership by Ram Narayan Singh, with curses on claimants to possession. b) Two lines of verse in Arabic script. Headings in red. Three illuminated headings at the opening of divisions of the text. 16 miniatures in a provincial Indian style, probably eighteenth century. Some spaces for headings, illumination and miniatures left bland. Does not have a prose preface.

Incipit: bi-nam-i khudawand-i jan u khirad

Language(s): Persian.

References

vAs for Codrington/Reade No 238.

Entered in the Donations Register for 15 March 1834. No 14 in list of Persian MSS.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 474 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 12.5 × 9.5. in.

Layout

27 lines to the page in four columns

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

English mottled brown leather binding, with red spine, tooling and marbled paper doublures.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Doyle.

Availability

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