Details

Subject(s)

• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Iran—History—To 640—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 1 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the pre-Islamic Prophets and the early kings of Persia.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Description based on Martinovitch catalog.
• Origin: 8 Rabīʻ II 1025 H [26 April 1616] in Simnān, by Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (leaf 416a).

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

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

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 463

OCLC

858914111

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