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Delhi Persian 1244

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032-003381086
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Delhi Persian 1244
Title:
Commentary by Arzu on Sikandarnamah of Nizami
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
306 ff. (+3)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1836
End Date:
1836
Date Range:
1836
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ārzū, Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī Khān, 1689?-1756,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083894986,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65143027
Ārzū, Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī Khān, 1689?-1756,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083894986,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/65143027
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140?-1203?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178439,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2474895
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1244

Commentary by Arzu on Sikandarnamah of Nizami

Contents

1 copy of Iskandar'nāmah by Sirāj al-Dīn ʿAlī Khān Ārzū

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Lengthy and detailed, though untitled, commentary by the great philologist, poet and prose stylist, Sirāj al-Dīn ʿAlī Khān “Ārzū” (d. 1169/1756) on the Iskandar'nāmah mas̲navī (comprised of the Sharaf'nāmah and Khirad'nāmah) from the Khamsah by Ḥakīm Abū Muḥammad Ilyās Ganjavī "Niẓāmī" (d. 614/1217).

The work is endorsed by a later hand (f. 1r) as the Sharḥ-i Sikandar'nāmah by Khān-i Ārzū.

Dated colophon (f. 306r): completed at Ḥiṣār Fīrūzah (Hisar, Haryana), 4 Rajab 1252/15 October 1836.

Swiftly transcribed in a small shikastah āmīz hand.

Pencil foliation.

Damaged red leather binding.

Fragile.

Author: Sirāj al-Dīn ʿAlī Khān Ārzū سراج الدّين على خان آرزو

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 306 ff. (+3)
Dimensions (leaf): 236 × 158 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1836-10-15 4 Rajab 1252 AH; 15 October 1836 CE Hisar Firoza ; India, Hisar, Haryana

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

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