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Delhi Persian 87A*

Record Id:
032-004378006
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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MDARK:
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 87A*
Title:
Fragment from an unidentified hagiographic account focused on Chishtī saints during the reign of Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq (d. 752/1351).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
54 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1550-1599
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq
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Delhi Persian 87A*

Contents

Summary of Contents: Fragment from an unidentified hagiographic account focused on Chishtī saints during the reign of Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq (d. 752/1351).
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Fragment from an unidentified hagiographic account focused on Chishtī saints during the reign of Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq (d. 752/1351).

Defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the late fifteenth century.

Not foliated.

Neat scribal naskh, occasionally integrating Bihari flourishes.

Sporadic annotations and corrections in margins.

Folios bound; creased, stained, cropped.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 54 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 174 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1550-159916th century India

Provenance 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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