Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4059 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Sarmad, ruba'iyat

Contents

1 copy of Rubāʿīyāt-i Sarmad by Muḥammad Saʿīd Kāshānī "Sarmad"

Collection of rubāʿī or quatrains by the seventeenth-century, Jewish Iranian poet, convert to Islam, and mystic, who, after travelling to Timurid or Mughal South Asia, fell in love with a Brahmin youth and abandoned all clothing, for which he was executed by Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I (d. 1707) in 1071 / 1660-1

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 29 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 138 × 238 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq in watery ink

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1896 - October 1897 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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

Availability

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Bibliography

    15_220r

Funding of Cataloguing

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