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1 copy of Taʻrīb Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī

Author: Firdawsī فردوسي

Translator: Bundārī, al-Fatḥ ibn ʻAlī, 1190 or 91-1245 or 6

Title: Taʻrīb Shāhnāmah

Title: Kitāb imtithāl amr al-Malik al-Muʻaẓẓam fī akhbār mulūk al-ʻajam

Title: تعريب شاهنامه

Title: كتاب امتثال امر الملك المعظم في اخبار الملوك العجم

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 241

Prose translation (or rather abridgement) of the Shāhnāmah

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 152 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 26.0 × 18.4 cm.

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Layout

25 lines per page.

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History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of J.L. Burckhardt (1784-1817) in 1819.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900. abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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JISC

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