RAS Persian 264A. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Pand-namah
With the ghazals of Mahmud in the margins. Decoration as in Codrington/Reade No 264, q.v. Three miniatures, two corresponding to those in No 264, the other depicting Anushirwan rather than the torment of the damned. Author unknown. Falsely attributed to Sa'di.
References
Physical Description
Layout
13 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
Format, decoration and binding are very similar to those of Codrington/Reade No 264. Both contain the same work and the same poems in the margins. They differ in small details and may be by different scribes. The miniatures, however, are by two different artists. Limp red leather Indian binding with painted decoration.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presumably gift of Lieut.Col. Carmichael Smyth, registered on 6 June 1842.
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