IO Islamic 4615 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Contents
1 copy of Shīrāznāmah by Zarkūb Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr, 1282?-1387
Title: Shīrāznāmah
Title: شیرازنامه
A history of Shīrāz, with biographies of the rulers of Fārs and the famous Shaikhs and Imams of Shīrāz, down to the year 744
This copy lacks the first folio, and the text ends on 141b
Language(s): Persian
The remainder of the manuscript contains the following:—
f. 142-161a
Title: Fragments of Islamic and pre-Islamic history
f. 161b-167b
Title: A biography of the Būyid Az̤ud al-Daulah (d. 372/982)
f. 168-172
Title: A legendary account of Nebuchadnezzar
References
For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 384.
For a more detailed description see Storey 1927, page 351.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 172 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 7.4 × 3.5 in.
Dimensions (written): 4.8
Layout
Hand(s)
ordinary Persian nastaʻlīq
Decoration
Water-stained
Additions:
Some folios torn
History
Origin: Ramadan 1075 AH
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396
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