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IO Islamic 3966

Record Id:
032-004343621
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3966
Title:
Majmaʿ al-ṣanāʾiʿ & Yad-i bayz̤ā
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
263 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1712
End Date:
1764
Date Range:
1712-1764
Calendar:
Gregorian
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bilgrāmī, Sayyid Ghulām ʻAlī Āzād, 1704-1786,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083996667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90779326
Bilgrāmī, Sayyid Ghulām ʻAlī Āzād, 1704-1786,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083996667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90779326
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ṣaliḥ al-Ṣiddīqī al-Ḥusaynī
Subjects:
Persian poetry
Poets, Persian--Biography
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 3966

Majmaʿ al-ṣanāʾiʿ & Yad-i bayz̤ā

Contents

Collection of biographies of poets and poetic techniques

1. ff. 1-110
Author: Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad Siddīqī al-Ḥusaynī نظام الدّين احمد صدّيقى الحسينى
Title: Majmaʿ al-ṣanāʾiʿ
Title: مجمع الصّنائع

Treatise on forms and devices of Persian poetry, with examples from the works of important or popular poets

Good nastaʿlīq hand

Signed and dated: Damdārīdās (superscript note: Kamal Sen), 22 Rabīʿ I regnal year 1 of Emperor Jahāndār Shāh (=1124)/22 April 1712

Begins with the seal and inscription of the Nawab of Farrukhabad (see 'Irvine' Muʾnis al-Arvāḥ)

Language(s): Persian
2. ff. 112-263
Author: Bilgarāmī, Ghulām ʿAlī Āzād غلام على آزاد بلگرامى
Title: Yad-i bayz̤ā
Title: يد بيضا

Biographical dictionary of ancient and modern poets, completed 1148/1735-6.

Dated: 19 Rabīʿ II 1178/15 Oct. 1764

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 263 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 266 × 171 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1712-1764 22 Rabīʿ I 1124-19 Rabīʿ II 1178 (1712 - 1764) AH ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/7_f071r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/7_f071r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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