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Or 9700

Record Id:
032-004342986
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TEI
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Or 9700
Title:
Volume containing several works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
185 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Urdu
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1700
Date Range:
1700-1700
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Anonymous
Navvāb Iḥtishām al-Dawla
Zayn al-Dīn
Subjects:
Abū Yazīd Bisṭāmī, Ṭayfūr ibn ʻĪsá, d. 874?
Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
Persian letters
Persian poetry
Urdu poetry
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 9700

Contents

Volume containing several works

3. ff. 182r-184r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Miscellany of poetry

Unattributed poetry

Mostly in Urdu with Persian verses in f. 182r and f. 183v

Language(s): Urdu and Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 61.
4. f. 184r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ruqʻa
Title: رقعة

An anecdote about a physician giving a “medicine” to the saint Bāyazīd Basṭāmī (d. 261/874 or 264/877-8) to ward off sins (cf. Or. 11310/29)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 68.
5. f. 185
Author: Zayn al-Dīn زين الدين
Title: Undated letter

A letter from Zayn al-Dīn to Navvāb Iḥtishām al-Dawla, congratulating him on a recent military victory

Document is undated

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 26.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 185 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 25 × 15 cm.

History

Origin: 12th or 13th century AH ; India

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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