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Delhi Persian 86A
- Record Id:
- 032-004378003
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004378003
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100169703388.0x000004
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 86A
- Title:
- Calendar with annotations on Timurid Household, 4 items (a-d)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- [{ "id" : "032-004378003", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Delhi Persian 86A: Calendar with annotations on Timurid Household, 4 items (a-d)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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- 032-004378003
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004378003
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 174 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1851
- End Date:
- 1856
- Date Range:
- 1851-1856
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Humayun, Emperor of Hindustan, 1508-1556,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000097222603,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/11090963
Qāz̤ī Fayz̤ Allāh
Qāz̤ī Luṭf ʿAlī
Qāz̤ī Nāṣir ʿAlī
Qāz̤ī Qudrat Allāh - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 86A
Calendar with annotations on Timurid Household, 4 items (a-d)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of Urdu ghazalīyāt mainly by Ẓafar, the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Bahādur Shāh II, and Persian entries recording marriages and other significant events for the same imperial family, all added at the end on an incomplete ledger of comparative tables for three calendrical systems (ranging 1815-1820 CE). Volume not dated; datable to the mid nineteenth century. Nastaʿlīq and awkward shikastah āmīz (especially items b-d) by multiple hands. Extensive annotations (see items b-d). Intermittent foliation in pencil. Binding damaged (combed marbled papers and printed cloth trim pasted over delaminating pasteboards, revealing inner matter of Kaithi and English accounts), labels. Possible loss of folios from end. Folios mostly unbound with some loose interleaf material; water and fungal stains. wormholes, later repairs. Condition very fragile.Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 1r-160vLanguage(s): Persian, Urdu, and ArabicDelhi Persian 86A a.
Partially completed jantarī or calendar, comprised of tables intended to record daily events in accordance with the solar ʿĪsavī (Christian), lunar hijrī, and luni-solar faṣlī calendrical systems (ranging 1815-1820 CE), by an unnamed author.
Only the first line of the first page contains an entry in Urdu, indicating the tables were no longer usable or useful after that. Although the gridlines of tables continue until later in the manuscript (see item b), the dated lemmata only continue until folio 74r.
Not dated at end.
Lemmata in scribal nastaʿlīq, with entries added in a speedily-written cursive shikastah āmīz hand.
Title: Kitāb-i jantarī az ibtidā-yi sanah 1815 va sanah 1215 hijrī va sanah 1222 faṣlīTitle: كتاب جنترى از ابتداى سنه ١٨١٥ و سنه ١٢١٥ هجرى و سنه ١٢٢٢ فصلى2. ff. 161r-167rDelhi Persian 86A b.
Untitled brief and informal selection of Urdu ghazalīyāt, muqaṭṭaʿāt, and rubāʿīyāt, the majority of which are by the poet bearing the takhalluṣ Ẓafar, that is, the last Timurid (Mughal) ruler, Emperor Bahādur Shāh II (d. 1279/1862), as well as by the last poet laureate and court historian of the same emperor, Najm al-Dawlah Dabīr al-Mulk Mīrzā Asad Allāh Khān Bahādur Niẓāmjang takhalluṣ Ghālib, known as Mīrzā Nawshāh (d. 1285/1869), written by an unnamed compiler in the same hand throughout and including items c-d.
Speedily-written cursive shikastah āmīz hand transcribed diagonally, vertically, and horizontally, in two vertical columns per page.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian, Urdu, and Arabic3. ff. 167v-170rDelhi Persian 86A c.
Untitled cluster of annotations recording the nikāḥ or marriage ceremonies for princes of the Timurid (Mughal) imperial family, including particulars of mahr and witnesses, using a combination of Persian and Urdu reckoning for dates and entries, spanning the years 1268-73/1851-6.
Not dated at end.
Speedily-written cursive shikastah āmīz hand transcribed into multiple narrow columns under headings.
Language(s): Persian, Urdu, and Arabic4. ff. 172r-173rDelhi Persian 86A d.
Untitled cluster of annotations recording the activities of various nikāḥ khvān or marriage officiates and qāz̤īs, listed as Qāz̤ī Nāṣir ʿAlī, Qāz̤ī Fayz̤ Allāh, Qāz̤ī Luṭf ʿAlī, Qāz̤ī Qudrat Allāh, organised in a combination of English (March-April 1852) and lunar hijrī dates, the latter spanning the years 1268-70/1851-54.
Not dated at end.
Speedily-written cursive shikastah āmīz hand transcribed under extended headings.
Language(s): Persian, Urdu, and ArabicPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 174 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 185 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1851-1856 1851 - 1856 CE ; India, DelhiProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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