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Padmāvat

by Malika Mohammada Jāyasī, active 1540, author

  • First published:
  • 13th century
  • Language: Urdu
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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98 pages ; 28 x 17 cm Title from fly leaf Copy date and place, translator and transcriber's names from the colophon (ff.170b-171a) 13 lines per page, Rekhta (Indian nasta'līq) srcipt, Oriental paper Catch words, rulled-borders, rubricated Headings are written in red ink, few marginal glosses Manuscript Translated from the Hindi Poem of Malik Muḥammad Jāʼīsī by Ẓiya al-Dīn (ʻIbrat) and G̲h̲ulām ʻAlī (ʻIshrat) Purchased from the Nawwab of Tonk Urdu Collection Purchased by Ivanow in Lucknow, 1926 Half bound black leather, black cloth over boards, pages are badly worm-eaten, stab sewn

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the subject metadata.

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1237-01-01T00:00:00ZRāmpūr :Urdu—Public digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: McGill University Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
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internet-archive:McGillLibrary-rbsc_blackerwood_folioMSBWIvanow0234-17185
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