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Delhi Persian 787
- Record Id:
- 032-003453666
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003453666
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100080916229.0x000008
- LARK:
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 787
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Sufism, poetry, and prose, 3 items (a-c)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-003453666
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003453666
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 27 ff. (+1)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1750
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1750-1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082763458,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90062645
Lālah Shīvū Rām
Nabi Hadi
Vāqif, Nūr al-ʻAyn, d. ca. 1776 - Subjects:
- Calendar, Iranian
Calendar, Turkish
Physiognomy
Sufi literature, Persian - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 787
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, poetry, and prose, 3 items (a-c)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Sufism, poetry, and prose literature. Volume not dated. Rough shikastah āmīz. Folios decoratively prepared with eleven horizontal lines marked out with brown stain (ff. 21-27). Annotations. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Act XLIII of 1850, published Calcutta 1851, Bengal Military Orphan Press, by J C Sherriff); watermarked (Britannia/Minerva seated in crowned oval frame; not dated); labels, torn and stained. Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, stained, later repairs. Condition fragile.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 1r-21rLanguage(s): PersianDelhi Persian 253(a), ff. 1r-21r.
Untitled physiognomic treatise explaining poetic tropes, allegories, and verses thematically in accordance with parts of the human body, by an unnamed author.
The work’s quotations are routinely confined to the verses of Ẓahīr Fārābī and other early poets.
Not dated at end.
Rough shikastah āmīz.
2. ff. 21r-23vDelhi Persian 253(b), ff. 21r-23v.
Untitled collection selecting passages on Sufi terminology from the works of the master, Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī, by an unnamed compiler.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. ff. 23v-27vDelhi Persian 1208(c), ff. 23v-27v.
Incomplete copy of a treatise in refined prose briefly extoling the virtues of named months and their animal equivalents making up the Turko-Mongol duodenary calendrical system, by Lālah Shīv Rām Lāhawrī takhalluṣ ʿĀshiq, who according to Nabi Hadicompleted a collection of correspondence, the Ruqaʿāt-i Shīv Rām, in circa 1197/1766, and was the friend of the poet Nūr al-ʿAyn ibn Amānat Allāh Lāhawrī takhalluṣ Vāqif(d. 1776).
The scribe’s orthography when rendering the Turkic names of the month is not always in accord with the standard.
The text ends abruptly without formal conclusion.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Ṣifat-i awqātTitle: صفت اوقاتPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 27 ff. (+1)Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 150 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1750-1799 1750 - 1799 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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