Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 4 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the dynasties contemporary with the Abbasids.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from notes on fol. 2a, 334b.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords and rubrication. Some marginal paper repairs, particularly extensive to first two leaves, but with only very slight loss of text. Occasional staining. In good condition.
• Origin: 1075 H [1664 or 5] (fol. 334a).
• Incipit: فهرست نسخۀ سعادت ابدى و دىباچه مجموعۀ کرامات سرمدى

Binding note

Full red leather with black leather doublures.

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Muḥammad ʻAlī on fol. 1b; partially effaced note of ʻAbd al-Laṭīf on fol. 2a. Owner's stamp and note of ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, dated 1233 H [1817 or 18], on fol. 333b.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 90

Other title(s)

• Tārīkh-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā
• تارىخ روضة الصفا

OCLC

811344495

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