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Subject(s)

• Nādir Shāh Shah of Iran 1688-1747—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Iran—History—16th-18th centuries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

History of the reign of Nādir Shāh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a by a modern hand.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 10 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on thin, glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in blue and red. Headings and interlinear notes in red; Arabic quotations overlined in red. Catchwords. Last leaf detached. Edges somewhat ragged; light staining. Notes on fol. ib, 294b-295a. In good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed on 9 Rajab 1231 H [5 June 1816] in Dār al-Khilāfah Ṭihrān by ʻAbbās ʻAlī Nūrī (fol. 294a).
• Incipit: دىباج دىباچه کتاب کتاب فصاحت قرىن مخطط و مدبج از مدىح و آفرىن جهان آفرىنى است که غواص اراده اش دره عقىلۀ عقل اول را از مغاص عاقول حکمت ژرف و در دور درخىز قدرت شگرف در ىک آن بدو حرف پدىد آورد ...

Binding note

Full olive green leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants painted orange and blind-stamped and tooled fillets; pink paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Note dated 1332 H [1913 or 14] on fol. 1a. Two owner's seals on fol. 1b. Notes dated 1297 [1879 or 8] and 1299 H [1881 or 2] on fol. 294b.

Other format(s)

Published ([Tehran], 1366 [1987]).

Other title(s)

• Durrah-i Nādirī.
• دره نادرى.

OCLC

797205191

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