RAS Persian 305. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Shah Isma'il, the latter written in the margins.
Title: Tīmūrnāmah
Title: تيمورنامه
F1a: signature of David Price. F324b ; poems of Baba Fighani and Mulla Siri, Poetical histories of Timur and of Shah Isma'il, the latter written in the margins. Ruled margins and dividing panels. Headings in red. Initial opening of rather simple illumination.
Incipit: Incipit, Timur-namah: Bi-nam-i khuda'i kih fikr-i khirad Incipit, Isma'il-namah: Khudaawand-i bi-chun khuda'i tu-rast
Language(s): Persian.
References
Storey, i, pp. 288-9, 303. Storey lists only one other MS of the Isma'il-namah
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 162 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 10.5
Layout
15 lines to the page in double column and diagonally in the margins
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
Red leather Indian binding with flap and stamped and painted decoration and doublures with flowers stencilled in silver.
History
Availability
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