Volume 1 of Rawz̤at al-ṣafā, containing the history of the pre-Islamic Prophets and the early kings of Persia.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Label on upper cover: "7 MR". Inscriptions (upper pastedown and fol. 1a). Insert.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 310 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms? and roman-alphabet lettering "Francesco"; "Ghigliotti" and star; "L Picardo") ; MS in good condition, folio 1 repaired.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1146 by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd? (fol. 310b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم زيب فهرست نسخه مفاخر انبياى ...
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging.
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. 464
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
مجلد اول روضة الصفا فى احوالات الانبياء
Rawz̤at al-ṣafā fī aḥvālāt al-anbīyāʼ
روضة الصفا فى احوالات الانبياء
Later title from folio 1a
Mujallad-i avval Rawz̤at al-ṣafā fī aḥvālāt al-anbīyāʼ
OCLC
858914141
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