RAS Persian 256. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

1 copy of Bustan by Sa'di

Inside front cover: a) Armorial bookplate of Gordon of Buthlaw. b) Printed slip, describing the MS, perhaps from a sale catalogue. The colophon states that the owner was Shaikh I'tibari,son of (reading walad for walid) the late Shaikh Muhammad Ja'far resident in ?, parganah ? Headings in red.

Incipit: Bi-nam-i jahandar-i janafarin

Language(s): Persian.

References

As for Codrington/Reade No 251.

General Gordon's bequest of books and Turkish, Perian and Arabic manuscripts is mentioned, without details in the donations register under November 6 1841. The bequest is mentioned in J.R.A.S., vii, 1843, Annual Report, p. x, and the manuscripts are briefly listed in the Proceedings, pp. xxx-xxxi.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 147 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 8.75 × 6.25. in.

Layout

15 lines to the page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq. Shah Muhammad Siddiqi Naqshbandi

Binding

Brown leather Indian binding with stamped and blind stamped decoration, with large, rectangular central gilded panels.

History

Origin: Thursday 25 Jesth A.H. 1200 (June 1786?), 1193 Bengali San era.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of General Thomas Gordon (of Buthlaw).

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