IO Islamic 4067 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Adab-i 'Alamgiri
Contents
1 copy of Ādāb-i ʿĀlamgīrī by Abū al-Fatḥ Qābil Khān Thathaʾī
Substantial portion from a larger collection of official ordinances and letters dating from the princehood of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I, collected by Qabil Khan as a dastūr al-ʿamal or manual for the teaching of inshāʾ or the art of epistolery and prose style
The work consists of a preface detailing its organisation in 9 maqālah or discourses themed by subject and type of document
Defective at end
Not dated
Additional text (f. 1r): 1) 2 recipes for dandān duzd; 2) single bayt in Urdu largely without nuqaṭ: ‘sunā t[h]ā dil kā ai [z̤]ālim svāmī / [q]ulū[b] ul-muʾ[minīn] ʿar[sh]-i [kh]udā hai’
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Physical Description
Hand(s)
Rough scribal nastaʿlīq
Binding
Board covered in coarse cotton cloth with stamped (thappā) repeated floral motifs on a pinkish orange ground
History
Availability
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