Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

IO Islamic 4068

Record Id:

032-004341881

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004341881

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100163235680.0x00002c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

TEI

Reference (shelfmark):

IO Islamic 4068

Title:

Miscellany of verse and prose

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Irvine Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "032-004341881", "parent" : "#", "text" : "IO Islamic 4068: Miscellany of verse and prose" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-004341881

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-004341881

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

50 ff.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1676

End Date:

1701

Date Range:

1676-1701

Calendar:

Hijri-qamari

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact . Contact for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see .

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4068

Miscellany of verse and prose

Untitled, illuminated bayāz̤ or notebook of Persian and Arabic analecta assembled from the works of (but not limited to) "Rūmī," "Khayyām," "Ḥāfiẓ," Ibrāhīm "Adham," "Bīdil," "Bihjat," "Ṣāʾib," Nāṣir ʿAlī "Nāṣir," Muḥammad Qāsim, "Shādmān," "Āṣafī" ʿAjamī, Mīrzā Nāṣir "Inṣāf," Muḥammad Qāsim Mashhadī, in addition to some compositions by compilers / calligraphers

Each folio or side is transcribed by different writers at different 1) dates and 2) places, at the request of a certain Mawlānā Muḥammad Yūsuf (f. 27r), Mīrzā Muḥammad Yūsuf (f. 35v), or Āqā Muḥammad Yūsuf-jīv (f. 58r)

Dates range widely from the ghurrah or 1 Ramaz̤ān of regnal year 43 (ʿĀlamgīr I) at Fort Satara (f. 27r) to Wednesday 23 Jumādá I 1087 / 1676 (f. 29v)

The manuscript additionally preserves a rare letter (f. 64r) from the Timurid or Mughal Prince Dārā Shukūh addressed to the itinerant Iranian Jewish mystic, Muḥammad Saʿīd Kāshānī "Sarmad" (see IO Islamic 4059 for his poems)

Defective at beginning and end

Not dated

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Copied from an original =-=-=-=-

Author: Dārā Shukūh

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: 50 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 238 × 146 mm.

Hand(s)

Transcribed by more than 8 hands ranging in quality and style of script: calligraphic nastaʿlīq, rough nastaʿlīq,

shikastah, shikastah āmīz, shafīʿah, Indian taʿliq, naskh, etc, written at an oblique angle. Various scribe mentioned (in signatures) by name: Muḥammad Riz̤āʾ, Sayyid Yūsuf Aḥmad or Sayyid Yūsuf Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī, ʿAli Bilgrāmī, Shaykh Ḥabīb

Decoration

Margins ruled, adorned with polychrome abrī or loose and combed marbling, and the contours picked out in gold. Original folios trimmed and remounted on apertures of plain paper

Binding

History

Origin: 1676-1701 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Mawlānā Muḥammad Yūsuf

1913-08-15

William Irvine

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 E207/18 (digital images currently unavailable)

Availability

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Bibliography

[Persian_III] 18_57r

IO Islamic 4068

IO Islamic 4068

Miscellany of verse and prose

Contents

Physical Description

Hand(s)

Decoration

Binding

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Availability

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing