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Record Id:
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Or 15508
Title:
Two collections of letters
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
187 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1796
End Date:
1796
Date Range:
1796-1796
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Muḥammad Fayyāz̤
Nath
Shāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15508

Two collections of letters

Contents

Two collections of letters

1. ff 1v-48v
Author: Shāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad شاه محمد بن محمد
Title: Risālah dar inshā’
Title: رساله در انشاء

An unidentified compilation of formal letters (inshā) of various types, comprising 12 bābs devoted to different types of correspondence and elaborate forms of address (alqāb). By Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, called Shah Muḥammad, and dedicated to (or containing praise of) a certain Muḥammad Fayyāz̤ (3r).

Title supplied.

The text is incomplete at the end.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:
2. ff 49v-187v
Author: Nath نته
Title: Khazā’in al-zahab
Title: خزائن الذهب

A treatise on formal letter writing (inshā’). The preface explains circumstances behind the composition of the work: see f. 51r-52r. The author, (??) Nath (52r, line 6), immersed himself from an early age in the intricacies of inshā’. He received the patronage he needed for success after his arrival in Shāhjahānābād (Delhi).

Other contents: f. 1v, former library shelfmark in English: ‘No 25’.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Beige oriental paper, rather coarse and brittle.
Extent: 187 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.

Condition

Worm damage in the margins throughout, not affecting the text.

Hand(s)

Nasta‘līq with elements of shikastah, often difficult to decipher.

Additions:

Some additions by the copyist in the margins.

Binding

Semi-limp modern grey boards.

History

Origin: 1796-05-1796-06 Zū l-Qa‘dah 1210 (May - June 1796) AH ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

1998-10-15

Acquired from Sotheby's sale 15 October 1998, part of Lot 579.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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