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Delhi Persian 903D

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032-003459062

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Delhi Persian 903D

Title:

Miscellaneous works on Sufism and poetry, 5 items (a-e)

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Oriental Manuscripts

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India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

142 ff.

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Languages:

Arabic
Persian
Urdu

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1832

End Date:

1832

Date Range:

1832

Calendar:

Hijri-qamari

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Subjects:

Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
Persian poetry--1500-1796--History and criticism
Sufi literature, Persian

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Delhi Persian 903D

Miscellaneous works on Sufism and poetry, 5 items (a-e)

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Sufism, literary criticism and poetry by various authors. Volume not dated; item b dated (17 Jumādá al-Avval 1248/12 October 1832). Nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz. Occasional annotations in margins. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (index pages from BEIC legal publication on the Regulations of 1793); no apparent watermarks; labels, torn and stained. Folios unbound; cropped, creased, stains, smudging in parts, wormholes, later repairs. Condition very fragile.

Language(s): Persian, Arabic, Urdu

1. f. Iv

Language(s): Urdu

Delhi Persian 236(a), f. Iv.

Untitled Urdu ghazal by a poet identified in the last verse as Nawshah, informally scrawled into two columns.

Not dated at end.

Author: Nawshah

2. ff. 1v-93v

Delhi Persian 236(b), ff. 1v-93v.

Sufi treatise comprising ethically instructive anecdotes and tales in refined prose and poetry and arranged in forty chapters, dedicated to the Timurid Prince Abū al-Muḥsinduring the reign of his father Abū al-Ghāzī Sulṭān Ḥusayn known as Mīrzā Bāyqarā, written by one of the leading scholars at court, Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī Bayhaqī(d. 910/1505).

Dated colophon (f. 93v): completed by Najaf ʿAlī Riz̤avī Shāhjahānābādīat qaṣbah Mainpuri (?), 17 Jumādá al-Avval 1248/12 October 1832.

Added at the beginning (f. 1r) is an Urdu verse or shiʿr ascribed to Chandū Laʿl, Prime Minister of the Āṣaf Jāhī Niẓām al-Mulk and renowned poet of Dakhinī Urdu writing under the takhalluṣ Shādān(d. 1259/1843).

Language(s): Persian, Arabic, Urdu

Author: Ḥusayn al-Kāshifī حسين الكاشفى

Title: Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī

Title: اخلاق محسنى

3. ff. 94r-102v

Delhi Persian 236(c), ff. 94r-102v.

Untitled commentary on the prose works of Ẓuhūrī Turshīzī(d. 1025/1616) by an unnamed commentator.

The text ends abruptly at the end.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian

4. ff. 106r-140r

Delhi Persian 236(d), ff. 106r-140r.

Mystical romance set in the Panjāb, inspired by accounts of Laylá and Majnūn, composed in mas̲navī form by Muḥammad Akram Panjābī “Ghanīmat”(d. 1100/1698).

Not dated at end.

Shikastah āmīz and nastaʿlīq variously arranged in three to four columns.

Language(s): Persian

Author: Ghanīmat غنيمت

Title: Nayrang-i ʿishq

Title: نيرنگ عشق

5. ff. 140v-142r

Delhi Persian 236(e), ff. 140v-142r.

Untitled collection of miscellaneous Urdu and Persian poems in ghazal form by unidentified poets.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: 142 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 208 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1832-10-12 17_Jum-I_1248 AH; 12 October 1832 CE ; India, Mainpuri (?)

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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Delhi Persian 903D

Miscellaneous works on Sufism and poetry, 5 items (a-e)

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