Delhi Persian 76A* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous literary works, 6 items
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Treatise on poetic figures and techniques attributed to a certain Muḥaqqiq Ṭūsī.
Dated colophon (f. 58v): completed by Karīmbakhsh (written as unlinked initials: KRYMBKhSh) on 2 Jumādá al-S̲ānī 1245/29 November 1829.
Brief untitled collection of Arabic and Persian murabbaʿ poems on the theme of qavāfī, some attributed to Jār Allāh ʿAllāmah.
Not dated.
Rare treatise on the science of letters, their lexicographical and normative importance in the Persian language.
Not dated.
Transcribed in a neater nastaʿlīq hand than other tracts earlier in the same volume.
Unidentified treatise commenting on the ghazals of the poet Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī, endorsed on the first page (f. 111r) as Sharḥ-i baʿz̤ī ashʿār-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī, by Mīrzā Khayr Allāh the muhandis or engineer.
The work is without a preface or introduction, beginning with the opening line of the first ghazal addressed to the sāqī.
Not dated.
Treatise on rhyme and prosody, endorsed on the first page (f. 139r) as Vāfiyah fī fann al-ʿurūz̤ va al-qāfiyah, which differs from the title stated in the author’s khātimah (f. 170r).
Not dated
Treatise on innovative conceits in poetry or fann-i badīʿ.
The work is a mukhtaṣar based on the Miftāḥ of Kakkākī and Mutavval of Taftāzānī.
The work consists of a dībāchah, muqaddimah, two faṣl, and a khātimah.
Dated colophon (f. 184v): completed Tuesday, 5 Shavvāl 1245/30 March 1830.
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