Delhi Persian 475 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Letters of Va'iz Kashifi
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1 copy of Ṣaḥīfah-'i shāhī by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
Treatise on Timurid inshāʾ or the formal prose epistolary arts, dealing with compositional style in accordance with status, titulature, and address, generally based on the author's larger work, the Makhzan al-inshāʾ, completed in 907/1501
The work is divided into an ʿunvān, three ṣaḥīfah (ff. 3v, 88v, 103v), with each ṣaḥīfah further divided into saṭr, and concluding with a khāṭimah
Good nastaʿlīq inclining toward cursive styles in parts
Not dated
Dated seal (f. 1v): 1170/1756-7
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