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Delhi Persian 1420

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Delhi Persian 1420
Title:
Kullīyāt-i Mullā Shāh Badakhshī
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Oriental Manuscripts
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India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
412 ff
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1625
End Date:
1675
Date Range:
1625-1675
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Badakhshī, Mullā Shāh, 1589 or 90-1661 or 2
Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī
Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ
Muḥāfiẓ Khān
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Subjects:
Koran--Hermeneutics
Persian poetry--1500-1796
Sufism--Early works to 1800
Tafsir
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1420

Kullīyāt-i Mullā Shāh Badakhshī

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collected works of Shāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Muḥammad ibn Sulṭān ʻAlī ibn Fatḥ Allāh al-Arkasāʼī al-Rustāqī al-Badakhshī, known as Mullā Shāh (1582-1661) forming a companion volume to BL IO Islamic 578. Contents include two Dīvāns, ghazals, Sharḥ-i Rubāʻīyāt together with the Rubāʻīyāt, Maktūbāt and commentaries on Sūrahs 1-3 and 12 of the Qurʼan.
Delhi Persian 1420a. ff. 1Ev-67v
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Dīvān-i avval
Title: دیوان اول

The first Dīvān of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.

Language(s): Persian
Delhi Persian 1420b. ff. 68v-103r
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Dīvān-i duvvum
Title: دیوان دوم

The second dīvān of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.

Language(s): Persian
Delhi Persian 1420c. ff. 104v-107v
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Ghazalīyāt
Title: غزلیات

A collection of ghazals in the form of letters to the beloved.

Language(s): Persian
Delhi Persian 1420d. ff. 108v-240v
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Sharḥ-i rubāʻīyāt-i Mullā Shāh
Title: شرح رباعیات ملا شاه

The Sharḥ-i Rubāʻīyāt of Mullā Shāh together with his Rubāʻīyāt.

Language(s): Persian
Delhi Persian 1420e. ff. 241v-271r
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Maktūbāt-i Mullā Shāh
Title: مکتوبات ملا شاه

Letters of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.

Language(s): Persian
Delhi Persian 1420f. ff. 272v-364r
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Tafsīr-i Shāh va Shāh-'i tafāsīr
Title: تفسیر شاه و شاۀ تفاسیر

An unfinished commentary on the Qurʼān, partly in Persian and partly in Arabic.

The title Shāh-i tafāsīr is a chronogram giving the year of composition as 1057/1647-8.

The text of the Qurʼān is given in fragments, followed, as far as Sūrah 2:198, by a Persian paraphrase or translation. After verse 198 the Persian translation ceases and the comments are in Arabic and usually very brief.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see C.S. Storey, Draft for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts III: 1. Qurʼānic Literature, no. 3091.
Delhi Persian 1420g. ff. 365v-412r
Author: Mullā Shāh Badakhshī, 1589 or 1590-1661 or 1662 ملا شاه بدخشى
Title: Tafsīr-i Sūrah-i Yūsuf
Title: تفسیر سورهٔ یوسف

A commentary on Sūrah 12 of the Qurʼān, composed in 1057/1647.

As in the previous work, the Qurʼānic text is given in fragments, usually followed by a short metrical paraphrase in Persian.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

References

For a more detailed description see C.S. Storey, Draft for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts III: 1. Qurʼānic Literature, no. 3092.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 412 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

Pencilled India Office foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Rebound and partially gauzed.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 20

Poetry arranged in 4 columns, 20 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq in black ink, headings and overlining in red.

Decoration

Illuminated polychrome headings at the beginning of each work and gold filled decorated margins for each initial opening; ruled polychrome margins throughout.

Additions:

Marginal comments and corrections.

Text authenticated by the author, as in the companion volume IO Islamic 578. Note on f. 67v: قد حرة [sic] هذه النسخة الشریفة من نظر المصنف
 و الهکّ و الاصلاح و الحاشیة اکثر من یده

Folio 1Er contains erased seals and inspection notes dated 21 Muḥarram year 3, most likely of Bahadur Shah, i.e. (1121, 15 Mar 1709) - inscriptions in this hand of a similar date occur in a number of Mughal library mss. Further inspections are dated 19 Zu'l-Ḥijjah year 23 (of Muhammad Shah, i.e. 7 March 1741) and a record of the same date records the transfer of care from Muḥāfiẓ Khān to Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, both officials of the royal library during Muhammad Shah's reign.

Binding

Half-leather 20th century India Office red binding with a partially preserved earlier leather binding bound in (f. 1Ar), preserving blind tooled central medallion and pendants.

Seal(s):

Oval seal of Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī, possibly dated 1115 (1703/4) on f 1Dr.

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamps.

History

Origin: Mid 17th century CE (during the authorʼs lifetime). ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Was possibly copied under the author's supervision and was authenticated by him (f. 67v).

Was owned by Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī.

Was most likely part of the Mughal Library at least from 1709-1741 (f. 1Er).

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Availability

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Surrogates

Microfilm IOL 3145

Bibliography

    ‘Abd al-Muqtadir, Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Public Library at (Bankipore) Patna, vol. III (Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1912), [https://kblibrary.bih.nic.in/Vol03/Bp112.htm] , pp. 112-6, nos. 326-8 .

Funding of Cataloguing

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