Nizami Ganjavi - Skander-Namah - Persian manuscript

Legend of Alexander the Great in verse.

Manuscript.

Persian.

Pasted label on cover: Bhajan Lal Mss Dealer & Bookseller: title: Skandar-Nameh ... ; where from obtained: Amritsar; when written: 1217 Hijri.

Name of scribe not indicated.

Written in India.

Paper: thick, dark cream-color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text has border of two thin red lines; text is in two columns separated by a space ca. 5 cm wide and single red lines; black ink with no rubrication; marginal notes, corrections and glosses; catchwords on rectos.

Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 15 x 8.5 cm.

Fol. 1b-234b.

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 18.

Indian dark blue cloth binding.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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01/01/1802

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