RAS Persian 304. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

As for Codrington/Reade No 303.

The MS is described in Norah Titley's 'Two illustrated manuscripts in the South Persian style of the fifteenth century', in The Royal Asiatic Society: its History and Treasures', pp. 103-9. Here the donor is mistakenly, but understandably, identified with a later laird of Buthlaw, Patrick Pirie Gordon, who had been General Manager of the East Bengal Railway from about 1857 to 1862. Also B.W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society. pp. 27-9, where the donor is correctly identified. General Gordon's bequest of books and Turkish, Persian 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.