Details

Subject(s)

• Persian prose literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• طغراى مشهدى، active 17th century [Browse]

Contains

• Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī, active 17th century. Selections. [Browse]
• Ḥājjī Ḥusayn. Dībāchah bi-Dīvān-i Ṣāyib. [Browse]
• حاجى حسىن. دىباچه بدىوان صاىب. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of ornate prose by a variety of authors.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• On front cover and wrapper: 38 History of Solaiman [sic].
• Physical description: 14 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp staining and mild insect damage, mainly affecting end of ms.
• Origin: Ramaḍān, Kalkatah (fol. 33b).

Binding note

Plain boards with brown wrapper.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-43a: Sih nas̲r / [Ẓuhūrī]. Missing first leaf.
• 2. fol. 43b-46a: Dībāchah az Miʻyār al-idrāk / Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī.
• 3. fol. 46a-49b: Dībāchah bi-Dīvān-i Ṣāyib / Ḥājjī Ḥusayn.
• 4. fol. 50a-63a: Parīkhānah / Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī.
• 5. fol. 63b-73b: [Āshūbnāmah] / Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī. Incomplete at end.

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References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Musuem, II, 741-4

OCLC

820566255

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