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Delhi Persian 1040A

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032-004341507
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Delhi Persian 1040A
Title:
Commentary on Rumi’s Masnavi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
112 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1670
End Date:
1725
Date Range:
1670-1725
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aḥrārī, Muḥammad Nūr Allāh,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305037797
Aḥrārī, Muḥammad Nūr Allāh,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305037797
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121449235,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98930150
ʻAbbāsī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, d 1640?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/220725873
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1040A

Commentary on Rumi’s Masnavi

Contents

1 copy of Sharḥ-i Mas̲navī by Muḥammad Nūr Allāh Aḥrārī Akbar'ābādī

Author: Muḥammad Nūr Allāh Aḥrārī Akbar'ābādī محمّد نور الله احرارى اكبر آبادى
Title: Sharḥ-i Mas̲navī
Title: شرح مثنوى
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Commentary on the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 670/1271) by [Mīr] Muḥammad Nūr Allāh Aḥrārī [Akbarābādī].

The work heavily references as a later authority the commentary by the Timurid scholar and historian, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf the munshīʾ.

Not dated at end.

Small and tight scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz.

Annotations and corrections in margins.

Stamped and Persian foliation.

Binding damaged, spine intact (tooled reddish brown leather exterior embellished with medallions and outer bands of oxidised silver); doublures reddish leather with rulings.

Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition very fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 112 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 264 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1670-1725 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/14_f095r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/14_f095r (digital images currently unavailable)

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