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Delhi Persian 602

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032-004580192
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TEI
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Delhi Persian 602
Title:
Three works on tradition
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+31+i
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1800-1857
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Muḥammad Fayz̤ Vāsiṭī Bilgrāmī
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, d. 892
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,‏ Caliph,‏, 0600?-0661,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
Subjects:
Hadith
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Biography
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 602

Three works on tradition

Contents

a. ff. 4v-16v
Author: Muḥammad Fayz̤ Vāsiṭī Bilgrāmī مهمد فیض الواسطی بلگرامی
Title: Tarjumah-ʼi Shamāʾil al-Nabī
Title: ترجمهٔ شمایل نبی
Incipit: بسم الله…حمدی که مسبّحان صوامع جوامع معرفت از ادای کنه حمدیت بعجز معترف …
Explicit: و عمر وی هفتاد و چهارساله بود رح. الحمد الله علی کل حال تحقیق اشمإ الرجال الشمایل مصنف مهمد فیض الواسطی بالکرامی

The introductory portion of a Persian translation of al-Tirmidhī’s Shamāʾil al-Nabī, a collection of traditions concerning the person and character of the Prophet. Translated by Muḥammad Fayz̤ ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ṣadr-i Jahān Ḥātim Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Bilgrāmī al-Vāsiṭī al-Muḥammadī and completed in 1112 (1700-1701).

Preceded (f. 1) by an index, headed Fihrist-i Barzakh and the first leaf (f. 2) of what is possibly a Persian translation of al-Suyūtī’s Kitāb al-Barzakh. Further table on f. 3r (ff. 3v-4r are blank).

Language(s): Persian
b. ff. 17r-19r

Arabic definitions of different kinds of traditions.

Language(s): Arabic
c. ff. 21v-29v

Chapters (faṣl) 2-4 and the heading of chapter 5 from an unidentified Arabic work on Ḥadith.

Preceded on f. 20v by a further index.

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+31+i
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 156 mm.
Foliation:

Foliated in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Poor condition; broken binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 13 17

13-17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink with headings in red.

Additions:

Some marginal notes.

Note on front pastedown.

Binding

Three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards; paper pastedowns.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 16v, 17r, 19v).

History

Origin: Undated, 19th century CE ; 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 C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/5, ff. 106-9 (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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Surrogates

Microfilm IOL 356

Funding of Cataloguing

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