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Sarmad, ruba'iyat

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

Author: Muḥammad Saʿīd Kāshānī "Sarmad" محمّد سعيد كاشانى سرمد
Title: Rubāʿīyāt-i Sarmad
Title: رباعيّات سرمد

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

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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

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