RAS Persian 360 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Qirān al-saʻdayn by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
Title: Qirān al-saʻdayn
Title: قران السعدين
The initial entry is on a page inserted into the Library copy of Codrington, before p. 545. Many marginal notes A long poem on the meeting of Mu'izz al-Din Kaiqubad and his father Nasir al-Din Bughra Khan in 688/1289. Some headings in red initially; later ones left blank. Scribe is described as the slave of the court Muni La'l.
Incipit: Shukr guyam kih ba-taufiq-i khudawand-i jahan
Language(s): Persian.
References
Storey, i, pp. 495-500.
Rieu, ii, pp. 609-12.
Ethe, Nos 1186 (5), 1208.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: Folios
Dimensions (leaf): 9.5 × 6.5 in.
Layout
15 lines on a page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq. Muni La'l
Binding
Half-leather and marbled-paper European-style binding.
History
Origin: Wednesday morning 11 Shawwal 1238, 8 October A.D. 1822, regnal year 8..
Provenance and Acquisition
Provenance: Seyyed Ameer Ali.
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