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IO Islamic 4615

Record Id:
032-004342054
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4615
Title:
1 copy of Shīrāznāmah by Zarkūb Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr, 1282?-1387
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
172 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1665
End Date:
1665
Date Range:
1665
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Shīrāzī, Abū al-ʼAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī al-Khayr b. Shaikh Zarkūb, 1282?-1387?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000140205295,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/186863826
Shīrāzī, Abū al-ʼAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī al-Khayr b. Shaikh Zarkūb, 1282?-1387?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000140205295,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/186863826
Subjects:
Iran History
Local history
Muslim scholars Iran Biography
Shīrāz (Iran)
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4615

Contents

1 copy of Shīrāznāmah by Zarkūb Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr, 1282?-1387

Author: Zarkūb Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr, 1282?-1387 Abū al-ʼAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī al-Khayr b. Shaikh Zarkūb al- Shīrāzī Muʻin ابو العباس احمد بن ابى الخير بن شیخ زرکوب الشیرازی معن زرکوب شيرازى، احمد بن ابى الخير
Title: Shīrāznāmah
Title: شیرازنامه

A history of Shīrāz, with biographies of the rulers of Fārs and the famous Shaikhs and Imams of Shīrāz, down to the year 744

This copy lacks the first folio, and the text ends on 141b

Language(s): Persian

The remainder of the manuscript contains the following:—

f. 142-161a
Title: Fragments of Islamic and pre-Islamic history
f. 161b-167b
Title: A biography of the Būyid Az̤ud al-Daulah (d. 372/982)
f. 168-172
Title: A legendary account of Nebuchadnezzar

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 384.
For a more detailed description see Storey 1927, page 351.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 172 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 7.4 × 3.5 in.
Dimensions (written): 4.8

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Hand(s)

ordinary Persian nastaʻlīq

Decoration

Water-stained

Additions:

Some folios torn

History

Origin: Ramadan 1075 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

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