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Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498)

Title	Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498)
Author	Surat
Publication Date:	1736 (1149H)
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	244 mm x 155 mm x 26 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Per 385
Library Location	Persian collection
Date	1736 (1149H)
Notes	Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, gold-painted leather bookbinding, 198 folios, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with occasional Arabic text in thuluth script, with illuminated title heading (sarlawh, fol. 1v), floral borders (fols. 1v-2r), Garden of purity on the lives of prophets, kings and caliphs (Rawḍat al-ṣafā fī sīrat al-anbiyā’ wa al-mulūk wa al-khulafā’), by Muḥammad Khawāndshāh ibn Maḥmūd, or Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498), volume 8 of his universal history, copied by Muḥammad Ja`far, “at the blessed port” (dar bandare mubārak) Sūrat, Gujarat, India, dated Thursday 7 Jumada I 1149H, 13 September 1736.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold, Leather (material)
Nesne Adı	Codex
Yazı Tipi	Nasta`liq script

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Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498)

Author Surat

Publication Date 1736 (1149H)

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 244 mm x 155 mm x 26 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Per 385

Library Location Persian collection

Date 1736 (1149H)

Notes Garden of Purity (Rawḍat al-ṣafā), volume 8, by Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, gold-painted leather bookbinding, 198 folios, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with occasional Arabic text in thuluth script, with illuminated title heading (sarlawh, fol. 1v), floral borders (fols. 1v-2r), Garden of purity on the lives of prophets, kings and caliphs (Rawḍat al-ṣafā fī sīrat al-anbiyā’ wa al-mulūk wa al-khulafā’), by Muḥammad Khawāndshāh ibn Maḥmūd, or Mīr Khwānd (d. 1498), volume 8 of his universal history, copied by Muḥammad Ja`far, “at the blessed port” (dar bandare mubārak) Sūrat, Gujarat, India, dated Thursday 7 Jumada I 1149H, 13 September 1736.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold, Leather (material)

Nesne Adı Codex

Yazı Tipi Nasta`liq script