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Delhi Persian 554A
- Record Id:
- 032-004378039
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004378039
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100169703439.0x000014
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 554A
- Title:
- 1 copy of Miftāḥ al-khazāʾin by Jay Rām
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-004378039
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004378039
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 713 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1813
- End Date:
- 1825
- Date Range:
- 1813-1825
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Jay Rām Dās ibn Lālah Mangal Sayn Khatrī ibn Rāy Harī Singh Shaykhar takhalluṣ Shūkhī
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 554A
Contents
1 copy of Miftāḥ al-khazāʾin by Jay Rām
Language(s): Persian and ArabicThe first volume (alif to bāʾ) of a Persian dictionary of Persian based on the authority of copious literary citations, written by Jay Rām Dās ibn Lālah Mangal Sayn Khatrī ibn Rāy Harī Singh Shaykhar takhalluṣ Shūkhī (?).
The author dedicates the work to the Timurid (Mughal) ruler, Emperor Akbar Shāh II, completing it in RY 8 or 1228/1813, around the age of forty-one. The author lists his sources, poetic in the main, in the preface to the work.
The work focuses primarily on the range of metaphor, allegory, and conceits current in ancient and modern Persian literature.
Not dated at end.
Tight miniscule nastaʿlīq on pale orange, pink, and cream tinted papers.
Copious annotations by multiple hands in margins.
Stamped foliation and separately foliated earlier with neatly transcribed Persian numerals.
Original covers lost.
Binding of combed marbled papers over pasteboard edged with brown leather, damaged (doubleurs lined with EIC ledgers); labels.
Folios unbound; cropped, water stains, wormholes.
Title: Miftāḥ al-khazāʾinTitle: مفتاح الخزائنPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 713 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 308 × 178 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1813-1825Early 19th century; IndiaProvenance 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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