Basatin al-Uns, [1637]

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Title: Basatin al-Uns, [1637]
Creator: Madani, Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi
Taj al-Din Muhammad Sadr, 14th cent, creator
Published / Created: [1637]
Description: A Hindu tale, retold in prose and verse.
Chiefly in Persian, with intermittent prose and verse in Arabic; colophon is in Arabic.
Copied on A.H. 2 Ramazan 1[0]46 [A.D. 1637] by Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi al-Madani. A note on leaf 1 recto is dated A.H. 1119 [A.D. 1707 or 1708], hence the missing figure in the date of the colophon would seem to be a zero.
Good naskhi, in red and black. Unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with five colored miniatures.
Islamic binding, in brown.
Paginated 1-341 (291-299 omitted; first and last page not numbered).
Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Rieu, C. Persian manuscripts,
Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Extent: 27 x 16.5 cm.
Language: Arabic
Persian

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