Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 2572 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Qiṣṣah-'i Sanjān by Kayqubād, Bahman

Language(s): Persian

Qiṣṣah-i Sanjān, the traditional story of the settlement of the Parsis in India originally composed by Bahman ibn Kayqubād ibn Hurmuzyār Sanjānī at Nausari in AD 1600.

At the end of the manuscript the copyist's name is given as Rustam ibn Bahrām ibn Dārāb ibn Suhrāb ibn Mānak ibn Pishūtan called Sanjānah and dated Zamyad the month of Bahman 1107 AY equivalent to Jum II AH 1151 (1738). However as the paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1799, this must have been copied from an earlier manuscript.

European paper watermarked MB 1799 with crowned shield device.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. iii+23+iii
Dimensions (leaf): 219 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

Proper order of leaves is 1-17, 22, 18-21, 23.

Layout

catchwords.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻliq

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Red leather oriental binding without flap; semi-circular patterned ruled border.

History

Origin: 18th-19th centuries CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bibliotheca Leydeniana. Purchased from estate of John Leyden (1775-1811) in 1824.

1824.06.25

East India Company Library

Availability

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Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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