RAS Persian 289. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of A collection of poems mostly by Sahab, but beginning with two qasidahs by Fath 'Ali Khan Kashi, known as Saba by 2 authors

Author: Saḥāb Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Hātif سحاب اصفهانی، محمد بن احمد هاتف

Author: Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1822 or 1823 صبا، فتح علي بن محمد

Title: A collection of poems mostly by Sahab, but beginning with two qasidahs by Fath 'Ali Khan Kashi, known as Saba.

F1a: Copied as by the present Poet Laureate Fath Alee Khan Kaushee 1804 Charles Pasley Front flyleaf, recto, in pencil: Donated by Sir Charles Malcolm. Penultimate flyleaf, verso: Presented to the Royal Asiatic Socy by Sir Charles Malcolm Inside back cover: armorial bookplate of Charles Pasley. Ruled margins and dividing panels. Headings in red. Panel of illumination over beginning of text. The last part of the manuscript contains the story of Shaikh San'an and the Christian maiden from the Mantiq al-Tair of 'Attar.

Incipit: Chira ghamgin nabashad dil chira khurram nagrdad jan

Language(s): Persian.

References

For a notice on Sahab see Rieu, ii, p. 722; Suppt., p. 285.

For Saba, see Ethe, No 901.

Persian sources should be checked.

For the provenance see Donations Register for November 2 1844.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 50 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 8.25 × 5.5 in.

Layout

11 lines to the page in double column

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Limp red leather binding.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir Charles Malcolm.

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Subjects

Persian poetry

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