RAS Persian 313 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Persian Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of Nal Daman by Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayẓ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 8-1595
Title: Nal Daman.
A poem based on the story of Nala and Damayanti in the Mahabharata. No illustrations or decoration. Headings left empty.
Incipit: Ay dar tak u puy-i tu z-aghaz
Language(s): Persian.
References
Rieu, ii, pp. 419-50, 670-71.
Ethe, No 1464, 1468.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: Folios 140
Dimensions (leaf): 7.5 × 4.5 in.
Layout
15 lines on a page in double column
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq.
Binding
BInding of board covered with pink-sprinkled paper, leather spine
History
Origin: Written by a man accompanying Aurangzeb's army in the Deccan after its return from the conquest of the coastal Talkukun? and its ports; begun near Bijapur, completed at Ahmadnagar. The colophon is obscured in part by repairs. 12 Sha'ban 1095 (27 July 1684).
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