from the library of the foundation of Alexandre-August Lesouef (1829-1906), the collector of Oriental and Occidental MSS. He was a memre of the Ethnographic Society and also the founder membre (Membre fondateur) of the Society of the Japanese Studies. His inheritant his sister Mme Smith and his nieces Jeanne and Madeleine Smith (later the wife of historian Pierre Champion) gave this collection (firent don a l’Etat) to the state in 1913, which formerly was preserved in Nogent-sur-Marne, in the library of the foundation Smith-Lesouef.
Calligrapher:
many different hands
Folios extant in ms.:
536
Estimated num folios in ms.:
536
Columns x Rows:
4
x
29
Page Size (h x w):
420
x
242
mm
Text Size (h x w):
296
x
148
mm
Script:
Indian Nasta'liq
Colophon Folio:
536r
Sample Page Folio:
534r
Num Other Colophons:
149v, 297r, 425r
Ms Type:
Codex
Ms Status:
Complete
Completion Status:
Ready to upload to website
Illuminations in ms:
0
Illustrations in ms:
51
(
2
frontispiece(s)
48
Shahnama
1
other
[
see f 21v
] )
