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IO Islamic 4587

Record Id:
032-004342040
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004342040
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4587
Title:
1 copy of Dīvān-i Makhfī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
979 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1500
Date Range:
1500
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Whalley, P.
Zeb-un-Nissa, Princess, daughter of Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1638-1702,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000033116959,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31132651
Zeb-un-Nissa, Princess, daughter of Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1638-1702,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000033116959,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/31132651
Subjects:
Persian poetry 1500-1796
TEI:

India Office Library

IO Islamic 4587

Contents

1 copy of Dīvān-i Makhfī

Author: Zeb-un-Nissa, Princess, 17th cent. Princess Zīb al-Nisāʼ "Makhfī", d. 1114/1703 Zīb-an-Nisāʾ زيب النساء
Title: Dīvān-i Makhfī
Title: دیوان مخفی

A transliteration and translation, with notes and index, of the complete poetical works of the Princess Zīb al-Nisāʼ "Makhfī", d. 1114/1703

This manuscript has the following title-page: "Divan-i Makhfi / or collected poems of the Princess Zebunnisa / daughter of the Emperor Aurangzeb, / transliterated into the Roman character with notes / and prose translations and a hundred English metrical / versions, a scheme of Persian metres and indices of / notable words and of persons and places mentioned in / the poems / by / P. Whalley M.A. / late Bengal Civil Service."

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 373-4.
A selection of translated extracts from the Dīvān by P. Whalley was published at London in 1913 [For a more detailed description see Edwards 1935, page 742.]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 979 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 12.3

Decoration

Additions:

Lines varying; type written to fol. 904, remainder (index) in manuscript

History

Origin: Hijri-qamari AH

Provenance and Acquisition

This Manuscript was received into the Library in 1918, and was until 1937 located as a printed book (306.32.E.19)

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

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