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Delhi Persian 584A

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032-004546203
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Delhi Persian 584A
Title:
Taz̤kirat al-awliyāʼ by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. ii+380
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1514
End Date:
1515
Date Range:
1514-1515
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, 1475?-1535?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108941778,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/45109504
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān
Subjects:
Muslim saints
Sufis--Biography--Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 584A

Taz̤kirat al-awliyāʼ by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

Contents

Summary of Contents: Biographies of sufi saints, here totalling 71, copied by the famous 16th century calligrapher Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān, apparently for the library of the Timurid nobleman ʻAlī Shīr Navāʼī
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230. عطار، فريد الدين محمد بن ابراهيم
Title: Taz̤kirat al-awliyāʼ
Title: تذكرة الاولياء
Colophon: Completed by Muḥammad Khandān in AH 920 (1514/15).

Folios 6v-8r includes a list of 73 saints

An inscription on the shamsah (f. 1r) says that the manuscript was copied for the library of Amīr Kabīr Ṣāḥib-i Tadbīr ʻAlī Shīr, ie. the Timurid statesman ʻAlī Shīr Navāʼī who, however, died in 1501, well before the date of completion of the manuscript.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Original brown paper remounted on white paper, perhaps in the 18th century.
Extent: ff. ii+380
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 186 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Persian foliation.

Collation

Catchwords throughout on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

15 lines to a page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red. Copied by Sulṭān Muḥammad Khandān

Decoration

Folio 1r: eight-pointed polychrome inscribed shamsah on a blue and gold ground.

Folios 1v-2r: text in cloud bands on gold background, illuminated polychrome headpiece, margins decorated with gold floral design.

Additions:

Folios i-ii: two letters measuring 214 x 135 and 233 x 98 mm which had been inserted between ff. 40 and 41.

Binding

18th or 19th century red leather binding with embossed floriate paper border.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS stamp on ff. 1r and 380v.

History

Origin: 920 (1514/15) AH ; probably Herat, Afghanistan

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library vol III: Mss Eur 207/9, ff 100-101. (digital images currently unavailable) Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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