RAS Persian 287. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Dīvān-i Kalīm
Title: Dīvān-i Kalīm
Title: ديوان كليم
F1a: impression of rectangular Persian seal of Archibald Swinton Rustam Jang Bahadur, dated 1174 (1760-1) and regnal year 2. Inside front cover: armorial bookplate of Gordon of Buthlaw. Some headings in red.
Incipit: Badal kardam bi-masti 'aqibat zuhd-i riya'i-ra
Language(s): Persian.
References
Rieu, ii, p. 686.
Ethe, No 1563.
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: 125 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 9.5 × 5.75 in.
Layout
17 lines to the page in double column and diagonally on margins
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq. Muhammad Shafi'
Binding
British brown leather binding with tooled decoration, including, on the spine, a boar beneath a tree, perhaps with some heraldic significance.
History
Availability
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