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RSPA 3

Record Id:
032-003543706
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003543706
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 3
Title:
1 copy of Ashiʿat al-Lamaʿāt fī sharḥ al-mishkāt by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn al-Dihlavī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
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Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.xii+613+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1697
Date Range:
1600-1697
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Dihlavī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn, 1551-1642,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120129555,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45690112
Dihlavī, ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn, 1551-1642,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120129555,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45690112
Subjects:
Hadith
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 3

Contents

1 copy of Ashiʿat al-Lamaʿāt fī sharḥ al-mishkāt by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn al-Dihlavī

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

ff. 1v-613v
Title: Ashiʿat al-Lamaʿāt fī sharḥ al-mishkāt
Title: اشعة اللمعات في شرح المشكاة

A table of contents has been added at the start of the text in a very different hand. The script is large black ink naskh and it is in Arabic. The text stops before Kitāb al-Buyūʿ.

Incipit: الحمد لله اکمل الحمد علی کل حال وفی کل حین.
Explicit: نماز است درین یقعه شریفیه که حکم عمره وحج دار رواه البخاری
Author: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn al-Dihlavī عبد الحق ابن سیف الدین الدهلوی

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Thick brown woven paper.
Extent: ff.xii+613+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Good condition. Minor worm damage. Supports and guards.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 25

Hand(s)

Small nastaʿlīq script.

Decoration

Additions:

There are some marginal comments in both the scribal hand and (at least) one other hand.

Inspection notes dated from regnal year 41 (1697) of Aurangzeb to regnal year 1 probably of Bahadur Shah (1707).

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding.

Seal(s):

Circular seal of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ houseborn of ʿĀlamgīr bādshāh ghāzī, 1115 (1704-5.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1600-1697 1600 - 1697 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins, this manuscript was presented 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.2 no.III

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