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IO Islamic 4070

Record Id:
032-004341882
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4070
Title:
Ni'mat Khan 'Ali, 5 works in poetry and prose
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
316 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1720
Date Range:
1700-1720
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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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4070

Ni'mat Khan 'Ali, 5 works in poetry and prose

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of poetic and prose works by the poet Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī", in neat, nastaʿlīq-i khafī on pale ḥināʾī or pink burnished Oriental paper, with original colour and cold rulings; illuminated sarlawḥ and ʿunāvīn added later in poor style.
1. ff. 1-13
Author: Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī" نعمت خان عالی

Autobiographical preface or dībāchah by the poet ʿĀlī introducing the collection of his poetical works, with a lengthy explanation for his poetic pseudonym and various titles and posts at the Timurid or Mughal court of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I

Faded ʿunvān at beginning

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 14-135r
Author: Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī" نعمت خان عالی
Title: Dīvān
Title: ديوان

Collection of poems in varied forms and genres by the poet ʿĀlī

ʿUnvān at beginning

Language(s): Persian
3. ff. 135v-242r
Author: Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī" نعمت خان عالی

Untitled lengthy mas̲navī by the poet ʿĀlī on sufi themes, containing a number of edifying anecdotes

ʿUnvān at beginning

Language(s): Persian
4. ff. 242v-263r
Author: Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī" نعمت خان عالی
Title: Ḥusn va ʿishq
Title: حسن و عشق

Brief mas̲navī by the poet ʿĀlī on sufi allegorical themes, based on the Avadhi Mrigavatitradition

ʿUnvān at beginning

Language(s): Persian
5. ff. 263r-316
Author: Niʿmat Khān "ʿĀlī" نعمت خان عالی
Title: Vaqāʾiʿ-i Ḥaydar'ābād
Title: وقايع حیدرآباد

Detailed account in refined prose and poetry in an ironic tone by the poet ʿĀlī of the siege and conquest of the capital of the Quṭbshāhī Deccan kingdom, Hydrabad, by the forces of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I, in 1097/1686

ʿUnvān at beginning

Defective at end

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 316 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 248 × 203 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700-1720 18th century 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 E207/18_f058r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/18_f058r (digital images currently unavailable)

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