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Delhi Persian 1206A
- Record Id:
- 032-003381080
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- Format:
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1206A
- Title:
- Lata’if al-tava’if by Safi
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 225 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1728
- End Date:
- 1728
- Date Range:
- 1728
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Ṣafī Kāshifī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn, 1463-1533?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117742316,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90077852
Ṣafī Kāshifī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn, 1463-1533?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117742316,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90077852 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1206A
Lata’if al-tava’if by Safi
Contents
1 copy of Rashaḥāt ʿayn al-ḥayāt by ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ al-Kāshifī Ṣafī
Language(s): Persian and ArabicCollection of Sufi, religious, historical and morally edifying anecdotes and tales by the Timurid litterateur and author of the Rashaḥāt ʿayn al-ḥayāt, Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Vāʿiẓ al-Kāshifī, known as Ṣafī (d. 939/1532).
Written after a year-long siege of Hirāt (Herat) in praise of a Naṣīr al-Dīn Ẓahīr al-Millah Shāh Muḥammad Sulṭān, and in a simple prose style with poetry for the delight of his élite and common contemporaries.
The work comprises fourteen chapters termed bāb.
Dated colophon (f. 225r): completed in the city of Kashmīr (Srinagar), 18 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1141/21 November 1728.
Scribal nastaʿlīq tending to shikastah āmīz by multiple hands; irregular use of naskh for Arabic passages or rubrics.
Annotations in margins.
Stamped foliation.
Lacking original binding.
Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Regulation II for 12 February 1819, 2 Phagun 1225 Banglah era, 2 Phagun 1226 faṣlī era, 3 Phagun 1226 Vilāyatī era, 2 Phagun 1875 samvat era, 16 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1234 hijrī era); torn and stained.
Folios unbound, stains, wormholes.
Condition fragile.
Title: Laṭāʾif al-ṭavāʾifTitle: لطائف الطوائفPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 225 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 201 × 131 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1728-11-21 18_Rabi'_al-Sani_1141 AH; 21 November 1728 CE Srīnagar, Kashmīr ; India, Srinagar, KashmirProvenance 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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