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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Epic poem on the history of the kings and rulers of Iran, from Kayūmars̲ to Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page, in two columns; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Catchwords. First folio detached. In excellent condition.
• Origin: 3 Shaʻbān 1318 H [26 November 1900], by Muḥammad Raḥīm khalaf-i marḥūm Muḥammad Ḥasan (fol. 52b).
• Incipit: چرخ لوائي كه نخستين گشود * بر سر اكليل كيومرث بود * باغ سيامك چو خزان رنگ شد * جاي پدر منصب هوشنگ شد

Binding note

Loose in full green leather binding with blind-stamped fillets and purple doublures.

Language note

Persian.

References

Fihrist-i nuskhahhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Markaz-i Iḥyāʼ-ʼi Mīrās̲-i Islāmī, 1998-, II, 341

Other title(s)

• Tārīkh dar z̲ikr-i mulūk-i ʻArab va ʻajam
• تارىخ در ذکر ملوک عرب و عجم
• شاهنامه

Title given in Fihrist-i nuskhahhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Markaz-i Iḥyāʼ-ʼi Mīrās̲-i Islāmī

• Shāhnāmah

OCLC

806964255

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