Shāh Jihān - Persian manuscript
Summary
Biography of the Mogul Emperor Shahjahan.
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.
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