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Divan-i Maghribi

1 copy of Dīvān-i Maghribī by Mullā Muḥammad Shīrīn Nāʾīnī "Maghribī"

Author: Mullā Muḥammad Shīrīn Nāʾīnī "Maghribī" ملّا محمّد شيرين نائينى مغربى

Collection of poems, including ghazals, tarjīʿbands, and mas̲navīs, by a poet who died (according to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī's Nafaḥāt al-uns) at Tabriz, in 809 / 1406-7

Verses in order different to the edition published in Iran, 1280 / 1863

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 52 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 254 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear, but inelegant nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

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Binding

History

Origin: 24 February 1903 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/15 15_130r

Availability

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