Or 4742 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Display:: Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Kitāb-i Shāhīn by Shāhīn Shīrāzī

Author: 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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact British Library, Registering for a Reader Pass. Contact apac-enquiries@bl.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see Finding and ordering Persian manuscripts in the British Library.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL

TO TOP