Delhi Persian 69A* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Qur'an, surah Yusuf, translation and commentary
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1 copy of Sūrat-i Yūsuf
The Meccan sūrah Yūsuf (Qurʾān, XII) with a rare unattributed Persian interlinear translation (explanatory and Sunnī in tone) and additional commentary in the margins
The inventive Arabic calligraphy is notable for its quasi-monumental naskh’s stylistic resemblance to the Sultanate bihārī script, while the Persian interlinear translation and marginalia are in miniscule nastaʿlīq tending toward shikastah
Crude polychrome verse endings; Allāh written in red; occasional rulings in red
Dated colophon has been rewritten (f. 22v): completed by Ghulām Muḥammad Sanāʾī in Lāhawr on 17 Rajab 1050/2 November 1640
Additional medicinal recipes noted on the first flyleaf
Degrading leather boards; marbled paper lining; delaminating, revealing texts in Arabic (prayers and koranic (?) fragments), Persian (accounts), Kaithi (accounts), and Sanskrit (Shivite invocation (om shri Ganeshaya namaha) repeated on separate slips of paper; folios unbound; fragile
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