Or 4742 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Kitāb-i Shāhīn by Shāhīn Shīrāzī
Title: Kitāb-i Shāhīn
Title: Tafsīr-i Toroh
Title: Sharḥ-i Shāhīn-i Torah
A poetrical paraphrase of the narrative parts of the Pentateuch 3v-348r
The last folio, f. 349, is a fragment of the Ganknāmah of ‘Imrānī (see Or. 8695) and folio 2v contains a Judaeo-Persian translation of two poems by Israel ben Moses Najara
Language(s): Judaeo-Persian
References
For a more detailed description see Meredith-Owens 1968, page 40.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 349 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 26.6 × 20 cm.
History
Origin: 1702 CE; 5462
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on G. M. Meredith-Owens: Handlist of Persian manuscripts 1895-1966. London, 1968, with additional enhancements.
Availability
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