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IO Islamic 4625

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032-004342061
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4625
Title:
A volume containing two separate works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
318 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1644
End Date:
1644
Date Range:
1644
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Anonymous
Muḥammad ʻAlī
ʻAbdullāh Quṭb Shāh, Sultan of Golkunda, 1614-1672
Subjects:
Islamic ethics Early works to 1800
Kings and rulers Duties Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4625

A volume containing two separate works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 2 works by Unknown on the subjects of Islamic ethics Early works to 1800 and Kings and rulers Duties Early works to 1800
1. ff. 1-195
Author: Unknown
Title: Majmūʻah-ʼi Quṭshāhī
Title: مجموغۀ قطبشاهی

An ethical miscellany

Some folios are lost at the beginning, so that the name of the author is not preserved, but the title given above is as stated in the colophon, and presumably refers to the Quṭbshāh dynasty of the Deccan founded by ʻAbd Allāh Quṭbshāh, 1035/1626-1083/1672, عبدالله قطب شاه , during whose reign the book was evidently written

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 389.
2. ff. 196-318
Author: Unknown
Title: Akhlāq-i siyar-i pādshāhān
Title: اخلاق سیر پادشاهان

Treatise on the art of kingship, illustrated with anecdotes and poetical extracts, by an anonymous author

The title given above is that which occurs inIvASB., 1391: the present copy has none. According to Ivanow, chronograms prove that the book was commenced in 1054 and finished in 1055, but it is difficult to reconcile these conclusions with the date (1054) of the present manuscript. In the preface, the author refers to a previous work on a similar theme by himself, and perhaps the Majmūʻah-ʼi Quṭshāhī ( مجموغۀ قطبشاهی ) is intended

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 389-90.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 318 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 8.5 × 4.6 in.
Dimensions (written): 5.8 × 2.7 in.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Hand(s)

Indian shikastah

Copyist: Muḥammad ʻAlī محمد علی

Decoration

Rubrications

Gilt margins

Blue oriental paper; water-stained

Work 2 is illustrated

Additions:

Some folios damaged and torn

Binding

Green leather painted covers with decorative medallions

History

Origin: Hyderabad; 1054 AH

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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