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IO Islamic 4815/4

Record Id:
032-004342264
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4815/4
Title:
Set of five miscellaneous documents
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 f.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1822
End Date:
1822
Date Range:
1822
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Vāʿiẓ ʿAlī Fayz̤ Raqamī
Ḥusām al-Dawlah Nātāmābal (?) Khān Ṣāḥib Bahādur Shamshīrjang
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4815/4

Set of five miscellaneous documents

Contents

Specimen of mixed and novel calligraphic scripts (some identified as khaṭṭ-i nasīmī bi-al-rayḥān, muḥaqqaq, durrī, riqāʿ, naskh, s̲uls̲, tawqīʿ, taʿlīq, kūfī) and portions of Arabic and Persian prose and poetry possibly intended as a Christmas gift, from a collection of five miscellaneous documents from different sources and dates

Large sheet of thin paper folded into four sections, unmounted, blank on reverse

Signed repeatedly by Vāʿiẓ ʿAlī "Fayz̤ Raqamī", calligrapher. However, a more detailed colophon states that Vāʿiẓ ʿAlī was the pupil of Ūstād Sayyid Muḥammad Khalīl "Fayz̤ Raqamī" ʿAẓīm'ābādī (Patna, Bihar). After the ellapse of eleven years following his master's death, he completed this sampler with the support of Ḥusām al-Dawlah Nātāmābal (?) Khān Ṣāḥib Bahādur Shamshīrjang, 22 December 1822

Dated according to the Gregorian calendar only

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: leaf
Material: paper
Extent: 1 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 463 × 298 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1822-12-22 22 December 1822 CE Patna, Bihar (?) ; India

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