CODRINGTON/READE NO 63. IN UNNUMBERED BOX. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Tarikh i Firishtah, or Gulshan i Ibrahimi by 2 authors
First flyleaf, recto. Impression of rectangular seal of Thakar? Parshad dated 123?4 and regnal year 12? Needs checking. Last folio, verso. Impression of the same seal. Inside front cover, printed slip: Lieut. Col. Briggs. The same work as Codrington/Reade No 61. Headings in red. Ruled margins. Illuminated initial opening.
Incipit: As No 62.
Language(s): Persian.
References
As for Codrington/Reade No 61.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: Folios 576
Dimensions (leaf): 16
Layout
23 lines on a page
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
Red and brown leather Oriental binding with tooled and painted decoration.
History
Origin: 2 Jumada I A.H. 1159, regnal year 29 of Muhammad Shah.
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