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al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam

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al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam

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Treatise on the deeds of the Persian kings.
Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from container; based on comparison with other printings of the same work.
Name of scribe not indicated.
Probably written in Iran or India.
Paper; cream color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; text with gold and blue ruled borders; black ink with rubrication and highlights in blue ink; some pages colored dark blue, light blue, yellow, and pale orange; catchwords on rectos.
Naskh; 17 lines in written area 15 x 10 cm.
Fol. 1b-129a.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M58.
Brown leather contemporary binding with gold medallions front and back.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Incipit: أن احق ما يفتح به الكلام وينجح به المرام حمد الملك العلام القدوس السلام ...
Explicit/Colophon: والله تعالى ان يشب اقدامنا باصشبته الامرا ويعصم انفوسنا عن تصرف الاهواء ...

The Sasanian Empire (224 – 651 CE, also given as Sassanian, Sasanid, or Sassanid) was the last pre-Islamic Persian empire, established in 224 CE by Ardeshir I, son of Papak, a descendant of Sasan. Zoroastrianism was the state religion, and at various times followers of other faiths suffered religious persecution. The Empire lasted until 651 CE when it was overthrown by the Arab Rashidun Caliphate. It is considered by the Iranian people to be a highlight of their civilization for, after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550 –330 BCE) at the hands of Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, Persian culture was sustained through the Parthian Empire (247 BCE – 224 CE) and reached its height in the Sassanian Period; there was not to be another state that truly felt ”Iranian" after its fall.

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01/01/1825
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