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Delhi Persian 1222A

Record Id:

032-004580224

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Delhi Persian 1222A

Title:

Tuḥfat al-aḥrār by Jāmī

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

ff. ii+i+76+ii

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1739

Date Range:

1700-1739

Calendar:

Gregorian

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Hulās Rāy Hind
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, 1414-1492,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121431529,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90042997
Mīr Fayz̤ al-Dīn
Mīr Muḥammad Shafīʻ
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Sheida Heydarishovir
Sulās Rāy

Subjects:

Persian poetry--747-1500

TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1222A

Tuḥfat al-aḥrār by Jāmī

Summary of Contents: Jāmī's well-known Tuḥfat al-Aḥrar, part of his Haft awrang.

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامی

Title: Tuḥfat al-aḥrār

Title: تحفة الاحرار

Incipit: حامدا لمن جعل جنان کل عارف مخرن الاسرار کماله و لسان کل واصف مطلع انوار جماله.

Explicit: مهرنه خاتمه این خطاب/ شد رقم خاتمه تم الکتاب

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: ff. ii+i+76+ii

Dimensions (leaf): 242 × 155 mm.

Dimensions (written): 165 × 88 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation. Handwritten Persian foliation in black ink.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Worm-eaten and damp-stained. Remargined, repaired with silk gauze and rebound in 1916.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 11

The preface in prose is written in 1 column. The poetry is written in 2 columns. 11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, headings in red. The additional notes on ff. 1r and 76v are written in taʻliq, in black and ochre ink.

Vowels, glossary for some Arabic and Persian words and some marginal corrections added in ochre ink.

Decoration

Illuminated polychrome headpiece (f. 1v).

Opening pages framed in blue and gold; red rulings on ff. 1r and 76v.

Additions:

Translation of Arabic quotation on f. 1v.

F. 1r includes several verses and an acquisition note recording that Sulās or Hūlās Rāy acquired this book on 25 Ṣafar 1152 (3 June 1739), in Jahanabad (Delhi), via Mīr Muḥammad Shafīʻ, a descendant of Mīr Fayz̤ al-Dīn Ṣāḥib, and inspection notes dated regnal year 4 of Aḥmad Shāh, corresponding to year 1164 AH (1750/51) and 1 Muḥarram 1167, corresponding to regnal year 6 of Aḥmad Shāh (1753/54).

F. 76v also includes verses and a note stating that Sulās/Hūlās Rāy finished reading the book on 21 Shaʻban 1152 (23 November 1739), and would authenticate it subsequently.

Binding

Red half-leather India Office binding stamped 1916.

Seal(s):

Oval Persian seal, possibly dated 1141 (1728/29) Hulās Rāy Hind (ff. 1r, 76v).

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 76v).

History

Origin: 1700-1739Undated, probably early 18th century India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by Sulās Rāy via Mīr Muḥammad Shafīʻ at 25-2-1152

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 in1876

Record Sources

Based on C.A. Storey's description inDrafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/15, ff. 140-41 (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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Subjects

Persian poetry--747-1500