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Delhi Persian 69A*

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032-004341386
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Delhi Persian 69A*
Title:
Qur'an, surah Yusuf, translation and commentary
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 ff. (+1)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1640
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
1640
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ghulām Muḥammad Sanāʾī
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Delhi Persian 69A*

Qur'an, surah Yusuf, translation and commentary

Contents

1 copy of Sūrat-i Yūsuf

Title: Sūrat-i Yūsuf
Title: سورة يوسف

The Meccan sūrah Yūsuf (Qurʾān, XII) with a rare unattributed Persian interlinear translation (explanatory and Sunnī in tone) and additional commentary in the margins

The inventive Arabic calligraphy is notable for its quasi-monumental naskh’s stylistic resemblance to the Sultanate bihārī script, while the Persian interlinear translation and marginalia are in miniscule nastaʿlīq tending toward shikastah

Crude polychrome verse endings; Allāh written in red; occasional rulings in red

Dated colophon has been rewritten (f. 22v): completed by Ghulām Muḥammad Sanāʾī in Lāhawr on 17 Rajab 1050/2 November 1640

Additional medicinal recipes noted on the first flyleaf

Degrading leather boards; marbled paper lining; delaminating, revealing texts in Arabic (prayers and koranic (?) fragments), Persian (accounts), Kaithi (accounts), and Sanskrit (Shivite invocation (om shri Ganeshaya namaha) repeated on separate slips of paper; folios unbound; fragile

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 22 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1640-11-02 17 Rajab 1050 AH; 2 November 1640 CE Lahore, Punjab ; India

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