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RSPA 32

Record Id:
032-003475894
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003475894
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 32
Title:
1 copy of Makhzan al-Asrār by Niẓāmī Ganjavī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-003475894
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032-003475894
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. iv+40+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1609
End Date:
1609
Date Range:
1609
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Jamāl al-Dīn walad ʿAbd al-Wahāb Khān
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140?-1203?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178439,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2474895
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140?-1203?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178439,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2474895
Subjects:
Persian poetry--747-1500
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 32

Contents

1 copy of Makhzan al-Asrār by Niẓāmī Ganjavī

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1v-37v
Title: Makhzan al-Asrār
Title: مخزن الاسرار
Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī نظامی گنجوی
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم *** حست کلید در گنج حکیم
Explicit: پای زهر کرد وزلب در فشاء *** مخزن اسرار بـآ اخر رسید
Colophon: شکر که این نامه بعنوان رسید بیشتر از عمر پایان رسید تمت الکتاب بعون الله الملک الوهاب الموسوم بمخزن الاسرار از دست ملک الشعراء شیخ نظامی گنجوی علیه الرحمه والغفران فی یوم الاربعا من شهر صفر ختم الحر واللطفه لسنه ثمانیه عشر والف الهجره النبویه وسلم

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: This cream woven paper.
Extent: ff. iv+40+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Good condition.

Layout

Columns:2

Irregular layout.

Hand(s)

Fine nastaʿlīq script in black ink.

Decoration

Additions:

After the colophon, there is an ownership note of someone called Jamāl al-Dīn walad ʿAbd al-Wahāb Khān.

On fiv-iir, there are several paragraphs of Persian written in William Jones's handwriting, including a paragraph attributed to Amīr Khusraw. On f38r, Jones has written out the sounds of both the Persian and Hindavi alphabets with keywords to remember certain letters.

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine coloured marbled endpapers.

Seal(s):

Seal of Muhammad Quli Qutubshah, Sultan of Golconda (r.1612-26), dated 1021 (1612/13).

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1609-05-09 8_Ṣafar_1018 AH; 9 May 1609 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by Jones, his note: "W. Jones 4th November 1783 Bought at Calcutta for 11Rs".

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. This manuscript was given by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 28 no. XXXII

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