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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Iskandar-namah-i Bahri or Sharaf-namah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3

Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى

Title: Iskandar-namah-i Bahri or Sharaf-namah.

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).

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir John Malcolm. (Donations Register for May 19 1827.)

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