Or 15663 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Sihr-i halal
Contents
1 copy of Siḥr-i ḥalāl by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536
A mas̲navī poem on the love-story of Prince Jam and Princess Gul, with a preface in prose, by Muḥammad Ahlī Shīrāzī (d. 942/1535-6).
This poem has several remarkable artistic features: it has two different rhymes and scans in two metres; and each bayt contains a tajnīs.
Other contents: owner’s inscription with title and price, f. 1v.
Physical Description
Condition
Extensive worming, but rarely affecting the legibility of the text.
Layout
11 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʿlīq
Decoration
Red headings.
Binding
Modern boards, Rafiq Binding Works, Karachi.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
2000-10-12
Purchased at Christies sale 12 October 2000, part of lot 223
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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