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Delhi Persian 1366

Record Id:
032-003391266
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1366
Title:
1 copy of Dīvān by Mashriqī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
72 ff. (+2)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1650
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1650-1699
Era:
CE
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Delhi Persian 1366

Contents

1 copy of Dīvān by Mashriqī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Collection of lyrics or ghazalīyāt in alphabetic order by the Sufi and poet, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khalvatī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Mashriqī (d. 859/1454), the son of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Tabrīzī, khalīfah or successor of Shāh Niʿmat Allāh Valī in Tabrīz, and who chose to imitate the style and content of the earlier Sufi master, Shaykh Muḥammad Shīrīn ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn Yūsuf Nāʾinī Iṣfahānī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Maghribī (d. 809/1406-7), in contrast to whom Mashriqī devised his penname.

Not dated at end. Datable to the seventeenth century.

Small scribal nastaʿlīq.

Annotations in margins and vacant spaces by multiple later hands.

Intermittent pencil and Persian foliation.

Lacking binding.

Folios unbound; water and oil stains, foxing, smudging, creasing, wormholes, cropped, later repairs.

Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication); partial watermarks (VEIC, 1811); torn, folded, creased, stains; labels.

Condition fragile.

Author: Mashriqī مشرقى
Title: Dīvān
Title: دیوان

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 72 ff. (+2)
Dimensions (leaf): 224 × 130 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1650-1699 Second half of the 17th century 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

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