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Delhi Persian 1080

Record Id:
032-004546214
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1080
Title:
Shamʻ-i maḥfil by Khvājah Mīr Dard
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+123
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1785
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1785-1857
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
Dard, K̲h̲vājah Mīr, 1720?-1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066571237,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/505149196261774790553,
Muḥammad Nāṣir ʻAndalīb
Sheida Heydarishovir
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262
Subjects:
Sufism
Sufism--India
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1080

Shamʻ-i maḥfil by Khvājah Mīr Dard

Contents

Summary of Contents: A treatise in prose and verse affiliated to the Muḥammadīyah branch of Sufism, consisting of 341 short sections (nūr). completed in Ṣafar 1199 (December 1784/January 1785]).
Author: Khvājah Mīr Dard خواجه میر درد
Title: Shamʼ-i maḥfil
Title: شمع محفل
Language(s): Persian
Incipit: حمد بی پایان سزاوار صانعی که نور وجود خود شمع محفل موجودات ساخت و ثنای بیکران درخور خالقی که به اظهار تجلی الله نور السماوات و الارض از زمین تا آسمان پرداخت.
Explicit: انجام این درد دل سرد مقدرست فلله الحمد اولاً و... آخراً [و] رجوعی الیه باطناً و ظاهراً و هو الحاضر الناظر و هو الرفیق الآ[...] و هو الناصر.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+123
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords; each "nūr" is numbered in margin.

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten, loose leaves, detached binding, wrapped in a re-used India Office official document.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

f. 1r: cursive nastaʻlīq, copied in black ink, headed هو الناصر in red.

ff. 1v-122v: nastaʻlīq, copied in black ink, rubrications, Arabic text vocalised.

Additions:

Folio 1r, contains a note by an unidentified person beginning "هو الناصر" and referring to the author of the work by titles such as آیة الله, سیدنا and مرشدنا, suggesting an affiliation with the Muḥammadiyah sect. The note gives information about the different sections, the author's other works and praises him and his father Muḥammad Nāṣir ʻAndalīb.

Binding

Marbled boards, detached from the book, worm-eaten, paper paste-downs.

Seal(s):

Black oval Government of India Delhi MSS stamp (ff. 1r, 122v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: East India Company Acquittance Roll dated 1833. Watermarked J. Whatman 1828.

History

Origin: 1785-1857Late 18th century. India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at a 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 A.J. Arberry's description in "Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III" Mss Eur E207/4, f. 8r (digital images currently unavailable). and R.Levy's description, Mss Eur E207/12, f. 115r (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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