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Delhi Persian 965

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032-003380146
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Delhi Persian 965
Title:
Ilhamat-i Qudsi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
79 ff.
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!11_f015r (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1600-1857
Era:
CE
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Names:
Shirazi, Saadi, Persian poet, 1210-1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012031438X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100206721
ʻAbd al-Karīm Qudsī Anṣārī
Ḥasan ibn Gul Muḥammad
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 965

Ilhamat-i Qudsi

Contents

1 copy of Gulistān by ʻAbd al-Karīm Qudsī Anṣārī

Language(s): Persian

A series of edifying stories, some of mystical character, each introduced by the words سند است and ending with a moral in verse. The author appears to be ʻAbd al-Karīm Qudsī Anṣārī. Incomplete at end. 17th century.

The margins contain a numbers of different works:

ff. 1r-19r: a collection of verses existing of two short masnavis, a number of quatrains and single lines by an unamed author, possibly ʻAbd al-Karīm Anṣārī, 17th century;

ff. 27v-28v: the beginning of a commentary of the Gulistānof Saʻdīby an unnamed author, 19th century;

ff. 33v-48r: Tuḥfah-i Sulṭānīyah(تحفهٔ سلطانیه) by Ḥasan ibn Gul Muḥammad, an incomplete manual of the art of letter-writing with numerous specimens, 18th century.

Author: ʻAbd al-Karīm Qudsī Anṣārī عبد الکریم قدسی انصاری
Title: Ilhāmāt-i Qudsī
Title: الهامات قدسی

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 79 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 175 mm.

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Binding

Half-leather red India Office binding, 9 Nov. 1912.

History

Origin: 1600-1857 17th-19th centuries CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

Record Sources

Based on description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/11_f015r (digital images currently unavailable), f. 15r

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!11_f015r (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/11_f015r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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