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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Collection of the author's qaṣīdahs recording the wars and conquests of Sulṭān Maḥmūd Ghaznavī (reigned 998-1030).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 78a by a later hand.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Extensive damp staining and insect damage; a few paper repairs. First leaf was pasted to a newer sheet of paper, but has been partially torn off.
• Origin: The colophon by a later hand states that the manuscript was copied by Shaykh Raḥmat Allāh during the reign of Emperor Shāh Jahān [reigned 1628-1658].
• Incipit: توانگرى و بزرکى و کام دل بجهان * نکرد حاصل کس جز بخدمت سلطان

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp on leaf 2a. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 5

OCLC

851443375

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