Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

CODRINGTON/READE NO 80. BOX 37. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭbshāhī

Inside front cover, printed slip: Lieut. Col. Briggs. At present contains a plastic envelope containing four pieces of paper, three inscribed in Persian. The largest is a list of books. Another a letter, perhaps a draft, with an obscure seal on the back. A History of the Qutb-Shahi dynasty of Golconda. Headings and punctuation in red.

Incipit: Tamhidi ki shahbaz-i buland-parwaz-i andishah
Language(s): Persian.

References

Storey, i, pp. 746-7.
Rieu, i, pp. 320-1.
Rieu, i, pp. 320-1.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: Folios 303
Dimensions (leaf): 11.25 × 6.5 in.

Layout

15 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Red leather binding, probably Oriental, but with English watermarked paper dated 1825 used for flyleaves.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by General Briggs.

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