Summary
Biography of the Mogul Emperor Shahjahan.
Contributor Names
Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh, -1674?, author.
Straton, Francis, 1796-1882, former owner.
Created / Published
[1800?]
Subject Headings
- Shahjahan,--Emperor of India,--approximately 1592-1666
- Mogul Empire--Kings and rulers--Biography
- Mogul Empire--History
- India--History
- Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
- India
Notes
- 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.