Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 14548 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī

Title: Fragment

Part of a leaf from an Injū MS. of the epic poem Shāhnāmah ( شاهنامه ) , begun by Daqīqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, d. 980 or 81, دقیقی، محمد بن احمد , but mostly the work of Firdawsī, d. 415/1025, فردوسی

Illustrated

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 47.

Language(s): Persian

References

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

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 1 f
Dimensions (leaf): 12

Decoration

Illustrated

History

Origin: Southern Iran; 8th century AH

Record Sources

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

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