Delhi Persian 453C* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Hariri's Maqamat, translation and commentary

1 copy of Sharḥ-i Maqāmāt-i Ḥarīrī

Title: Sharḥ-i Maqāmāt-i Ḥarīrī

Title: شرح مقامات حريري

Translation and commentary (mamzūj) on Ḥarīrī's Maqāmāt

Defective at beginning, commencing with the fifteenth maqāmah

The author's name does not appear

Dated colophon fragmentary (f. 452v): dated regnal year 40 [of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr] (circa 1698) by Sulṭān Muḥammad Siyālk[ūtī]

Neat scribal naskh throughout; Arabic quotations in red

Annotated in margins

Unbound; boards missing; severly damaged by tears at end and wormholes; fragile

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 453 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 175 mm.

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History

Origin: 17th century CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/26_f005r

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Bibliography

MSS Eur E207/26_f005r

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