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Manuscript/Mixed Material Skander-Namah Yāghūth

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Title

  • Skander-Namah

Other Title

  • Yāghūth

Summary

  • Legend of Alexander the Great in verse.

Names

  • Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Created / Published

  • 1217 H. [1802 or 1803]

Headings

  • -  Alexander,--the Great,--356 B.C.-323 B.C.--Poetry
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  India

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Pasted label on cover: Bhajan Lal Mss Dealer & Bookseller: title: Skandar-Nameh ... ; where from obtained: Amritsar; when written: 1217 Hijri.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Written in India.
  • -  Paper: thick, dark cream-color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text has border of two thin red lines; text is in two columns separated by a space ca. 5 cm wide and single red lines; black ink with no rubrication; marginal notes, corrections and glosses; catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-234b.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 18.
  • -  Indian dark blue cloth binding.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 234 leaves (15 lines), bound : paper ; 22 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6501 .I8 1802

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015481727

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 Or Or 1203. Skander-Namah. [H. 1802 or 1803, 1802] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015481727/.

APA citation style:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1. O. O. 1. (1802) Skander-Namah. [H. 1802 or 1803] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015481727/.

MLA citation style:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 Or Or 1203. Skander-Namah. [H. 1802 or 1803, 1802] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015481727/>.