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Or 15663

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032-004343464
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Or 15663
Title:
Sihr-i halal
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
26 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1844
End Date:
1845
Date Range:
1844-1845
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1536?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000048907841,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36817419
Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1536?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000048907841,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36817419
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15663

Sihr-i halal

Contents

1 copy of Siḥr-i ḥalāl by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536

Author: Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536 اهلي شيرازي، محمد بن يوسف
Title: Siḥr-i ḥalāl
Title: سحر حلال

A mas̲navī poem on the love-story of Prince Jam and Princess Gul, with a preface in prose, by Muḥammad Ahlī Shīrāzī (d. 942/1535-6).

This poem has several remarkable artistic features: it has two different rhymes and scans in two metres; and each bayt contains a tajnīs.

Other contents: owner’s inscription with title and price, f. 1v.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Thin beige wove paper.
Extent: 26 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 231 × 143 mm.
Foliation:

Condition

Extensive worming, but rarely affecting the legibility of the text.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 11

11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʿlīq

Decoration

Red headings.

Additions:

Binding

Modern boards, Rafiq Binding Works, Karachi.

History

Origin: 1844-1845 1260 (1844 - 1845) AH ;

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-10-12

Purchased at Christies sale 12 October 2000, part of lot 223

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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