Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 46701 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

1 copy of Farasnāmah by Qurashī al-Sāvajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 17th century

A treatise on farriery originally composed in Arabic at Baghdad in 1033/1623-4, and translated by the author at the command of Shah Abbas I.

Incipit: چنین گوید داعی قلیل البضاعت ...نظام ابن ساوجی

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 37 f.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nasta-liq.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Book plate of Douglas Craven Phillott

in Gregorian.

Record Sources

Various.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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