CODRINGTON/READE NO 5. BOX 3. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Treatise on the Ceremonies and Religious Duties of Muhammadans by Vaḥshī Bāfqī, d. 1583
Incomplete at the end
Incipit: al-Ḥamdu li-Allāh allādhī awḍahā manāhij al-sharīʻah wa-al-islām ( الحمد لله الذي اوضاها مناهج الشريعة والاسلام )
Language(s): Persian
References
Author not in indexes of Rieu or Ethe.
General Gordon's bequest of books and Turkish, Perian and Arabic manuscripts is mentioned, without details in the donations register under November 6 1841.
The bequest is mentioned in J.R.A.S., vii, 1843, Annual Report, p. x, and the manuscripts are briefly listed in the Proceedings, pp. xxx-xxxi. This MS not yet identified in the list given there.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: Folios 302
Dimensions (leaf): 8.5
Layout
15 lines on a page
Hand(s)
Nastaʻliq
Decoration
Oval seal with Devanagari inscription on f1b.
Rubricated headings
Binding
Dark red oriental leather binding, tooled and blind tooled. Second front flyleaf, recto: Fickkaw? Back flyleaf, verso: No. 27.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Gift from the General Thomas Gordon, of Buthlaw
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