RAS Persian 243a. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

The number 243a comes from a handwritten note in the Library copy of Codrington. Four folios at the beginning and six at the end are written in a different hand. The colophon of the last of these states that they were written in London by Ghulam Haidar, of Chandannagar Frasdhanagar (?) in Bengal. Second front flyleaf, recto: Presented by Colonel J S Harriot to the Royal Asiatic Society. Authorship frequently, but incorrectly attributed to Firdausi.

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