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Delhi Persian 1272*
- Record Id:
- 032-004380684
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004380684
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100169708454.0x000012
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1272*
- Title:
- Gulistan of Sa'di, fragment
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-004380684
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004380684
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 26 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1744
- End Date:
- 1744
- Date Range:
- 1744
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Shirazi, Saadi, Persian poet, 1210-1291,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012031438X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100206721 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1272*
Gulistan of Sa'di, fragment
Contents
1 copy of Gulistān by Saʿdī Shīrāzī
Language(s): Persian and ArabicFragment from a calligraphic copy of the Gulistān by Saʿdī Shīrāzī. This copy is remarkable for its detailed colophon setting out the calligrapher’s description of the work’s importance for the moral improvement of general readers and specifically the close friend and the manuscript’s patron, whose name has been erased.
Defective at beginning.
Dated colophon (ff. 24r-26r): completed (by an unnamed calligrapher) around the age of forty, in dār al-khilāfah Shāhjahānābād, as a memento for the close friend (muṣāḥib va damsāz), at the request (ḥasb al-farmāyish) of the noble Navvāb […n] Bahādur (name erased), who is expected to rise to the station of ministership, Friday evening, 17 Rabīʿ al-Avval in RY 26 of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 1157/30 April 1744.
Neat calligraphic nastaʿlīq, occasionally lapsing into shikastah āmīz.
Annotations in margins and interlinear spaces by multiple hands.
Intermittent pencil foliation.
Lacking original binding.
Paper dust wrapper (informal list of Indian toponyms beginning the letter jīm and map or atlas coordinates/page numbers); creased, stained, torn; labelled ‘not worth keeping’.
Folios unbound and loose, disordered; excessive wormhole damage; creased, stains, cropped.
Condition extremely fragile due to excessive wormhole damage.
Not suitable for handling.
Title: GulistānTitle: گلستانPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 26 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 177 × 97 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1744-04-30 17_Rabi'-I_1157 AH; 30 April 1744 CE Shāhjahānābād ; 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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