Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 11911 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Specimens of calligraphy by Various calligraphers

An album containing specimens of calligraphy written by various masters, some of which bear dates. These include Bhāskar Panḍit,dated 1160, Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Samarqandī, dated 1125, Muṣṭafá, dated 1289, and Shāh Ni‘matullāh Qāz̤ī, dated 1187

The latest example is by Murtaz̤á Khān, dated 1309 and earliest are a mashq dated 1017, a folio written in the 13th century, and some leaves from an early 16th century copy of Jāmī’s Subḥat al-abrār

Other undated specimens are by Ḥuzrullah Sayyid Iḥsān, Hāfiẓ Nūrullāh, Javāhir-qalam, and Maḥmūd al-Dīn Aḥmad

Four folios are from a Jaina Prakrit work with Sanskrit commentary

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 31.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 84 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 41 × 32.5 cm.

History

Origin: 18th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.

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