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IO Islamic 3782

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032-004341693
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IO Islamic 3782
Title:
Works by Ni'mat Khan 'Ali
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
271 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1735
End Date:
1736
Date Range:
1735-1736
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, d 1710?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000084510219,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9292159478177627990001,
Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, d 1710?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000084510219,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9292159478177627990001,
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 3782

Works by Ni'mat Khan 'Ali

Contents

1 copy of a work by Niʿmat Khān ʿĀlī

Untitled compendious collection of prose (e.g., prefaces, letters, history) and poetry indicating this volume is a kullīyāt of the Iranian-born Timurid or Mughal court poet and courtier, Niʿmat Khān, also known as Dānishmand Khān, with the poetic pseudonym ʿĀlī

Coloured and gilt rulings throughout; illuminated head pieces at the beginning of most sections probably added later; transcribed in shikastah and shafīʿah

Poor condition, with detaching text panels due to degrading pigments on thin paper

Some careful philological annotations added in margins, with reference to the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī

Note on verso of first flyleaf and last (f. 271v): Fullekghar 1858

Multiple dated colophons at end of each major section (ff. 16v, 44v, 119v, 131r, 271v) indicating either a non-sequential order of production or that individual parts have been bound in an order different to order of completion: 1) completed 13 Rajab 1148/29 November 1735 in the ṣūbah of dār al-khilāfah Shāhjahān'ābād; 2) completed 16 Rajab 1148/2 December 1735 in the ṣūbah of Shāhjahān'ābād; 3) completed 4 Rajab 1148/20 November 1735 in the city of Dihlī; 4) completed 10 Shavvāl 1148/23 February 1736 in the ṣūbah of Shāhjahān'ābād; 5) completed 16 Ramaz̤ān 1148/30 January 1736 in the ṣūbah of Dihlī

IOL stamp: 13 May 1909

Language(s): Persian
Author: Niʿmat Khān ʿĀlī نعمت خان عالى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 271 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 112 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1735-11-20-1736-02-23 4 Rajab-10 Shavvāl 1148 (20 November 1735 - 23 February 1736) AH Shahjahanabad ; Delhi, India

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