Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 14403 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī

Illustrated copy of the epic poem of Firdawsī, d. 415/1025

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 47.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 547 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 33 × 22 cm.

Decoration

Illustrated

History

Origin: Transoxiana (probably Bukhara); about 910 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

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