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Delhi Persian 1027
- Record Id:
- 032-003380688
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003380688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100048923204.0x00000a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1027
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 7 items (a-g)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003380688", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Delhi Persian 1027: Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 7 items (a-g)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003380688
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003380688
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 90 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1770
- Date Range:
- 1700-1770
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hānsavī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/118045836
Hānsavī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/118045836
Muḥammad Faṣīḥ
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Ẓahīr ibn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd al-ʻAlawī - Subjects:
- Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800 - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1027
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 7 items (a-g)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Sufism, formal correspondence, and Persian grammar, comprised of heterogeneous fragments. Volume not dated; datable from the early- to mid-eighteenth century. Scribal nastaʿlīq and taʿlīq by multiple hands. Limited annotations in margins. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Folios unbound, occasionally disordered with lacunae; cropped, wormholes, later repairs; erased, rubbed, smudged, and transferred text; water stains. Condition fragile.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 1v-29vItem a.
Treatise assembling miscellaneous prayers, aphorisms, anecdotes, and verses on Ṣūfī subjects, some quoted and others apparently original, intended for recitation or chanting, by an unnamed compiler.
Dated colophon (f. 29v): completed by Muḥammad Faṣīḥ, 11 Rajab (year not stated). Datable to the early eighteenth century.
Subscription below the colophon relating to the origin or ownership of this copy has been erased.
This copy is marked by an extraordinarily bold hand hybridising the taʿlīq and nastaʿlīq scripts in a dynamic and quasi-calligraphic synthesis.
Excessively rubbing darkening paper (ff. 25v-29r).
Title: Z̲awqīyahTitle: ذوقيّه2. ff. 30v-32rItem b.
Fragment from the beginning of an unidentified collection of formal diplomatic correspondence, probably from the Nādir Shāh Afshār dynasty, by an unnamed compiler. See item d for a lengthier fragment.
The text ends abruptly at the end of the second page without formal conclusion.
Not dated at end.
3. ff. 34r-46rItem c.
Substantial fragment from an unidentified collection of models for formal correspondence or inshāʾ by an unnamed writer who compiled the collection at the age of 41 years.
The text ends abruptly without formal conclusion.
The work is specifically intended as an educational aid for rhetoric and literary techniques.
Not dated at end.
4. ff. 47r-50vItem d.
Substantive fragment from an unidentified collection of formal diplomatic correspondence by an unnamed compiler, consisting of part of the introduction and continuing beyond the point of abrupt conclusion found in item b.
The text ends abruptly without formal conclusion.
Not dated at end.
Scribal nastaʿlīq hand similar to that in item c.
5. ff. 51v-55rItem e.
Untitled treatise on Persian grammar and diction by ʿAbd al-Vāsiʿ Hānsavī.
Not dated at end.
6. ff. 56r-87vItem f.
Substantive fragment from an unidentified collection of formal diplomatic correspondence and bravura prose accounts commemorating events and people connected with the Timurid or Mughal court, by an unnamed compiler.
Defective at beginning and end.
Not dated at end.
Rough shikastah āmīz.
7. ff. 88r-89rItem g.
Fragment from an untitled treatise on Persian grammar by Ẓahīr ibn [Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd] al-ʿAlavī.
Not dated at end.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 90 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 152 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1700-1770 1700 - 1770 CE ; IndiaProvenance 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
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