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Delhi Persian 600A

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032-004580190
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Delhi Persian 600A
Title:
Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī by Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1163 or 4
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+116+i
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1814
End Date:
1814
Date Range:
1814
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
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d 1164?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000052652079,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22109210
Subjects:
Persian prose literature
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 600A

Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī by Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1163 or 4

Contents

Summary of Contents: Adventures in rhymed prose attributed to a friend of the unnamed author, identified as Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd al-Balkhī (d. 559/1164). The work was completed, according to the preface, in Jumādā II 551/1156.
Author: Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1163 or 4 حمید الدین ابو بکر عمر ابن محمود
Title: Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī
Title: مقامات حمیدی
Colophon: (f. 116v) Completed on 18th Zu ’l-Ḥijjah 1229 regnal year 9 of Muḥammad Akbar Shāh (1 December 1814).
Language(s): Persian
Filiation: Other copies in the British Library: Rieu p. 747 Add MS 7620, and Or 11984.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+116+i
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 156 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliated in pencil every fifth leaf.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Detached binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 13

13 lines per page.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Various notes on flyleaf and endpaper including a valuation of RS 10 in raqam script.

Binding

Three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards dating from the early 19th century; paper paste-downs.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 116v).

History

Origin: 28 Shavval 1244 AH (3 March 1829) ; 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 E207/29, ff. 1-2 (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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