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Delhi Persian 144*

Record Id:
032-003452323
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 144*
Title:
1 copy of al-Qurʾān
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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032-003452323
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
circa 250 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1750-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Masīḥ al-Zamān Khān the ṭabīb
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 144*

Contents

1 copy of al-Qurʾān

Language(s): Arabic and Persian
Title: al-Qurʾān
Title: القرآن

Complete, but damaged and thoroughly disordered copy of the Arabic Qurʾān with occasional annotations and corrections in the margins.

Dated colophon: completed … for Masīḥ al-Zamān Khān the ṭabīb… (date obscured). Datable to the late eighteenth century.

Not foliated.

Indications in margins for sujūd, rukūʿāt, aḥzāb (s̲uls̲, rubʿ, khams, niṣf, and so on) in coloured inks.

Rough naskh; annotations in various cursive hands.

Crude illumination added (probably later) throughout.

Metallic pigments oxidised.

Lacking original covers.

Folios unbound and disordered; wormholes, stains, creases, smudging, tearing, unevenly cropped, later repairs.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: circa 250 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1750-1799 1750 - 1799 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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