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Delhi Persian 598

Record Id:
032-004546212
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 598
Title:
A Persian translation of part of Alf laylah wa-laylah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. v+329+v. Folio 326v is blank
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1825
End Date:
1825
Date Range:
1825
Calendar:
Gregorian
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Ḥāfiẓ Barākat Allāh
Major-General Sir David Ochterlony, 1758-182
Murād ʻAlī Muʼaddī
Muḥammad Fāz̤il
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Stapleton
ʻAlī Bakhsh
Ḥimāyat ʻAlī
Subjects:
Folk literature, Arabic
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 598

A Persian translation of part of Alf laylah wa-laylah

Contents

Summary of Contents: A Persian translation of the first 200 nights of the Alf laylah wa-laylah (الف ليلة وليلة) translated by Murād ʻAlī Muʼaddī(?) of the ẓillah Allahabad.
Author: Murād ʻAlī Muʼaddī مراد علی مؤدی
Title: Tarjumah-’i Alf Laylā
Title: ترجمهٔ الف ليلة
Colophon: (F. 326r) Completed on 17th July 1825 corresponding to 29 Zu’l-Qaʻdah 1240 AH by Ḥimāyat ʻAlī in the Shalimar garden at the request of Capt. Stapleton and General Ochterlony [ie. Major-General Sir David Ochterlony, 1758-1825].

Followed on f. 327 by notes on reading and writing (در خواندن و نوشتن) and on f. 329 on acting justly (در انصاف کردن).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. v+329+v. Folio 326v is blank
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 88 mm.
Foliation:

Foliated on every fifth leaf in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Detached binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

21 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings,in red.

Additions:

Note on f. 1r giving date of purchase, 19 Jumada II 1245 AH (16 December 1829) from book-binders (ṣaḥḥāfān) Muḥammad Fāz̤il and ʻAlī Bakhsh.

Binding

Red leather Indian binding with blind-tooled central medallion, vertical pendants (two above and below), corners and triple ruled gilt-painted frame. Marbled pastedowns.

Seal(s):

Rectangular seal of former owner Ḥāfiẓ Barakat Allāh, 1233 (1817/18) (f. 1r).

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 238v).

History

Origin: 1825-07-1717th July 1825 corresponding to 29 Zu’l-Qaʻdah 1240 AH; Shalimar garden, India

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 R. Levy's description in "Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III"Mss Eur 207/28, f. 43r (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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