RAS Persian 250. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Iskandar-namah-i Bahri or Sharaf-namah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Second front flyleaf, recto: Presented by Sir John Malcolm May 19. 1827. The second of the two parts of Nizami's Iskandar-namah Red ruled margins on first opening. Red headings.
Incipit: Khirad har kuja ganji arad padid
Language(s): Persian.
References
As for Codrington/Reade No 246.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 124 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 5.5
Layout
13 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq. Sayyid Yusuf son of Mir Sharif Bukhari
Binding
Red leather Indian binding with panels of stamping on foil and painted lines.
History
Origin: The garden of Sayyid 'Asim Khan Mubariz Jang Bahadur in Chinapatan, known as Mandras (sic). Breakfast time, Friday 1 Rabi' II A.H. 1212 (23 September 1797).
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