1. ظفرنامه / من بدائع منشآت الامام الافاضل العظام شرف الملة والدين علي اليزدي
ظفرنامه

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Abstract: History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).Binding note: Red leather. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. The outer border consists of fillets and a large guilloche. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Traces of a now wanting flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 500b).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (omits the first fol.). Stained with water.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 June 27, 1482 (fol. 500b, in Arabic).Incipit: مدا كثيرا مباركا لمن توتى الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وصلوه طيبه دايمه على خاتم الانبياء وسيد الاولياء محمد واله ... مقاله اول در ذكر صادرات احوال حضرت صاحب قراني انار الله برهانه بنام خدائي كه از نامه اوستExplicit: خلايق مرفه ز احسان او زمين وزمان تحت فرمان او الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين م