Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
110
Physical Dimensions
255 x 168 mm
Library
Wellcome Collection museum and library
Record ID
zjs9j8zn
Library Location
For full details see 'A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' / by Fateme Keshavarz. London, 1986
Notes
A calendar of the year A.H. 1301, according to the Persian solar system [A.H. lunar 1341/A.D. 1922]. As stated in the preface, this is the fifty-fourth year of the life of the king [?] and thirty-seventh year of his accession to the throne. [The above year falls within the reign of Ahmad Shah Qäjär (1327-43 / 1909-24). It is, however, the fourteenth and not the thirty-seventh of his reign]. The calendar provides the equivalents of this year. The beginning of the year is given as Thursday, the twenty-second of Jumada I, and a lunar eclipse is predicted on Sunday the fourteenth of Zu al-Hijjah. | 21 lines; Nastaliq with elements of Shikastah (good personal hand); subtitles in red; fine Oriental paper (laid lines only) worm-eaten; lacunae at the beginning, after fols.30, 48, 75, 81, 88, and at the end; fols.26, 89, 90, and 110 damaged; most fols, remargined; cloth quarter- bound; undated (late A.H. 11/A.D. 17th cent.). Miniature-paintings. | Nastaliq with elements of Shikastah
