Manuscript/Mixed Material Shāh Jihān شاه جهان / Shāh Jahān

Title

• Shāh Jihān

Other Title

• شاه جهان
• Shāh Jahān

Summary

• Biography of the Mogul Emperor Shahjahan.

Names

• Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh, -1674?, author
• Straton, Francis, 1796-1882, former owner

Created / Published

• [1800?]

Headings

• -  Shahjahan,--Emperor of India,--approximately 1592-1666
• -  Mughal Empire--Kings and rulers--Biography
• -  Mughal Empire--History
• -  India--History
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  India

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Persian.
• -  Title from container; label and pencilled information in manuscript erroneously identifies the work as the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī.
• -  Name of scribe not indicated.
• -  "Transmitted [?] from Francis Straton ... October 1836, Bangalore" with parallel statements in Urdu and Persian.
• -  Written in India.
• -  Paper; cream color polished laid paper with vertical chain lines; no visible watermarks; black ink with some rubrication; scattered pencilled notes in English in margins; minor worm damage with no loss of text; catchwords on rectos.
• -  Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 25 x 14 cm.
• -  Folios 1b-230a.
• -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 53.
• -  Contemporary red leather binding; gold borders and medallions front and back, now mostly worn off; front cover detached.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

• 230 leaves (13 lines), bound : paper ; 36 x 24 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• DS461.6 .M8 1800

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m053

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2015481531

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2015481531

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