Autobiography of Bābur, translated from the Chagatai original by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Bayrām Khān who completed it in 998 H [1589 or 1590].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, per Rieu.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in calligraphic nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Text framed in black; rubrication and catchwords. Edges painted gold and red. In excellent condition.
Origin: 17 March 1887, by Muḥammad Vilāyat-i ʻAlī Khalaf al-Ṣidq Mawlavī [ibn] Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAlī (fol. 348b).
Incipit: در ماه رمضان سنه هشتصد و نود و نو در ولاىت فرغانه در دوازده سالگى پادشاه شدم ولاىت فرغانه از قلىم پنجم است
Binding note
Contemporary European-style full red leather with gold-stamped central design and fillets; gold-stamping on spine; marbled pastedowns and flyleaves.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, I, 244
OCLC
840613546
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