Or 11914 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Oriental Manuscripts

1 copy of Specimens of calligraphy by Various calligraphers

Specimens of calligraphy, in both Persian and Arabic, including leaves from various Qur'āns, some with interlinear Persian translation, two two farmāns of the Mughal Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, dated 1153 and 1157, a farmān of ‘Ālamgīr II, ‘Ālamgīr II, dated 1167 and one of Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī, dated 1181

The specimens are written by ‘Alī Qulī, in 1188 Muṣṭafá ‘Alī, in 1199 Javāhir-qalam, in 1085, Khāksār Muḥammad Ṣubḥānī, in 1199 and Zayn al-‘Ābidīn in 1207

The earliest example is dated 1054 and the latest are two marriage contracts of 1267 and 1276

Language(s): Persian

References

Meredith-Owens 1968, page 32.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 59 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 56.4 × 37.4 cm.

History

Origin: 17th-19th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed to the British Museum by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund,July 1949. Transferred to the British Library in 1973.

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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