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IO Islamic 4623

Record Id:
032-004343699
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4623
Title:
A volume containing two separate works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
88 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Aḥmad b. ʻAlī b. Aḥmad
Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Pīr Muḥammad
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d 1505?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d 1505?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
Kāšifī, Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ, Iranian writer, 1461-1504,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083626201,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90770167
Sulṭān Abū ʼl-Ghāzī
Subjects:
Islam Prayers and devotions
Letter writing, Persian
Prophets
TEI:

India Office Library

IO Islamic 4623

A volume containing two separate works

Contents

Summary of Contents: 2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Letter writing, Islam Prayers and devotions, and Prophets

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 88 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 5.1

Hand(s)

A

Contents

1. ff. 1-63
Author: Aḥmad b. ʻAlī b. Aḥmad احمد بن علی بن احمد
Title: Kanz al-laṭāʼif
Title: کنز الاطائف
Title: Kanz al-balāghah
Title: کنز بلاغه

A collection of model letters—probably fifty: this copy has a heading of the 49th on fol. 62a, and there is a lacuna after that folio

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 388.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: folios
Dimensions (written): 5.5 × 3.8 in.

Condition

Last folio torn

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10

Hand(s)

Good Indian nastaʻlīq

Copyist, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Pīr Muḥammad, غیاث الدین بن پیر محمد

Decoration

Rubrications

interlineary and marginal notes

Water-stained

History

Origin: 17th century CE

B

Contents

2. ff. 64-88
Author: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5Library of Congress/NACO Ḥusain Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī حسين واعظ كاشفي كاشفي، حسين واعظ
Title: Intikhāb Tuḥfat al-ṣalavāt
Title: انتخاب تحفة الصلوات

An epitome, apparently made by the author himself, of a treatise on the cult of the Prophet, and prayer

It is stated in the preface that the epitome was made at the request of Sulṭān Abū ʼl-Ghāzī, سلطان ابو الغازی [Mīrzā Baiqarā of Herat], who reigned 873-911

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 388-9.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: folios
Dimensions (written): 3.3

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Hand(s)

Persian shikastah-āmīz

History

Origin: 18th century CE

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

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