Bahār-i dānish
Contributors: Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: India?]
Language: per
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: Tales; Early works to 1800; Persian literature; Persian Manuscripts
Description: Collection of romantic tales in Persian derived from Indian sources. Large areas of text pasted over between f. 405 and 414.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from added title (f. 1r).

Layout: 13 long lines; catchwords every verso.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red, some missing.

Origin: Item is undated; probably copied in the 18th century in India.

Shelfmark: MS Or 374.

Effaced owner's statement (f. 451v); partially removed bookplate with the initials MLP [?] (inside back cover).

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Gift of Alexander Isaac Cotheal.

Persian.

Formerly owned by Alexander Isaac Cotheal (stamp f. 2r, 451v, second to last flyleaf verso).

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, four thin, radial lines and frame made up of blind tooled dots.

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