Hamdullah Mustawfi, Nuzhat al-qulub (Heart's Delight) (1061 A.H.), 1650 A.D.

Containers:

Box 3, Volume 17

Scope and content:

Possession notes of 1061 AH/1650 AD and 1189 AH; and a note that it belonged to a J. Fargues (/), who lived in Shiraz in 1881. Contains charts and in particular a striking map of the world known to him. Nuzhat al-qulub, composed around 737 AH/ 1336-7 AD, in Persian prose, is primarily a work of geography and cosmography. Manuscripts of it are relatively common. It has been edited and published in the original Persian and translated into English. The binding is leather, without any guilding or embossing.

Contains no illuminations.

Physical location:

32108050924300

Collection context