RAS Ellis Persian 26 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

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1 copy of Rishi-namah (?)

Author: Anonymous.
Title: Rishi-namah (?).

An account of the poems and actions of the Sufi Shaikh Nur al-Din Rishi and his followers, apparently based in part on the seventeenth-century Rishi-namah of Baba Nasib. Includes much Persian and Kashmiri verse by the Rishis. Scribe: possibly autograph.

Incipit: Incipit:
Language(s): Persian and Kashmiri.

References

Storey, i, pp. 985-6.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf):

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History

Origin: Presumably Kashmir.

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