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Exact title: The donation of Shahnameh to Prince Baysanghor Mirza in White Garden Palace in Herat
The Manuscript no.4 belongs to Malek National Library and Museum. The manuscript consists in 505 folios and each page contains 31 lines. The calligrapher’s name is Mohammed Bin Motahhar Bin Yousef Bin Abi Saeed Ghazi Nishabouri with dates back to Sha’ban, 833 HD/ April 1430 AD. The manuscript consists of five frontispieces coloured; has a lacqured binding, significant of the Qajar period. Dimensions are 35 × 24. Registration number is 6031. This manuscript along with the Shahnameh (book of kings) was prepared in a single volume to be preserved at the library of Baysonghor Mirza. In 1296 HD/ 1879 AD. It became one of the possessions of Farhad Mirza Mo’tamed al-Dowleh, a Qajar prince.
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