CODRINGTON/READE NO 47. BOX 20. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Habib al-siyar. Vol.II by Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, ca. 1475-1535?

Author: Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, ca. 1475-1535? خواند مير، غياث الدين بن همام الدين

Title: Habib al-siyar. Vol.II.

Front flyleaf, recto: Presented to the Oriental Translation Com[ittee] by Sir A Malet Bart Part of the same work as Codrington/Reade No 46. History of the twelve Imams, the Umayyad and Abbasid Khalifs, and of Dynasties contemporary with the Abbasids. Illuminated panel at top of f1b. Ruled margins and rubrication.

Incipit: Rabbana atina min ladunika rahmatan wa hayyi' lana min amrina rushdan. Al-hamdu lillah alladhi ja'ala lilnabiyyin lisan sidq

Language(s): Persian.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: Folios 305
Dimensions (leaf): 12

Layout

27 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Written by the same scribe as Codrington/Reade No 46 and in a similar binding, which has also been rebacked.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir A. Malet.

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