Details

Subject(s)

• Timur 1336-1405—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Timurids—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from front edge of ms. by a later hand.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Poetry quotations in three columns. Extensive paper repairs with some loss of text; damp staining in margins. Erroneous numbering in Western script begins on front endpaper. Smudged impressions of seals on fol. 194b. Incomplete at beginning and end. Label on front cover reads "93" in Arabic script; spine label stamped "960" in Arabic script.

Binding note

Full blue-black leather binding with stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets. Modern brown endpapers.

Language note

Persian.

Other title(s)

ظفرنامه تىمور تالىف ىزدى

Inscription on inner front endpaper

• Ẓafarnāmah-i Tīmūr taʾlīf-i Yazdī

OCLC

707536640

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