RAS Persian 344 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

1 copy of A commonplace book in elongated (bayad) form

Title: A commonplace book in elongated (bayad) form.

Final flyleaf: a) two impressions of small oval seal of Muhammad Husain Khan, date illegible. b) Presented to the Oriental Translation Come by Sir A Malet Bart. Front and back flyleaves have medical prescriptions written on them. Inside back cover: armorial bookplate of Sir Chas. Warre Malet. Contains poems from Khayyam, Nizami, Kalim, Salim, Sa'ib, Iltifat Khan, Hakim Rukna, Talib and others. In prose, (part of) the Waqa'i-i Ayyam-i Muhasarah-i Qal'ah-i Haidarabad of Ni'mat Khan 'Ali, letters to and from 'Abd al-'Aziz Khan (Uzbek), from Aurangzib to his father thanking him for a prayer carpet, from 'Urfi, from a Sultan of Rum etc. Some headings, punctuation etc. in red. On paper sprinkled with silver on one side, and in part with stencilled designs in gold in addition.

Incipit: Incipit; uncertain where the beginning is.

Language(s): Persian.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: Folios 198

Dimensions (leaf): 4.25 × 9. in.

Hand(s)

Shikastah, mostly in the same neat shikastah hand.

Binding

Brown leather Indian binding with stamped decoration, the doublures of red paper with stencilled flowers. This is now enclosed in a blue cloth binding with tooling on the spine, provided from the Carnegie Trust U.K. grant, 1930.

History

Origin: Probably compiled in the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Given to the Oriental Translation Fund by Sir Arthur Warre Malet.

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