Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 16484 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

‘Iqd al-ūlā li-l-mawqif al-a‘lā of Hamid Munshi

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1 copy of Tārīkh-i Kirmān by Afz̤al al-Dīn Kirmānī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥāmid, active 1174-1188

An elaborately worded history of the conquest of Kirman, ‘Iqd al-ūlā li-l-mawqif al-a‘lá, in 581-3/1185-7, by the Ghuzz chieftain Malik Dīnār. The author Afżal al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Hamid Munshī, commenced this work in 584/1188.

For details, other manuscripts, and printed editions of this work, see Storey, PL I/1 p. 357 and Storey/Bregel’, PL II, pp. 1055-8 (the section on histories of Kirman is greatly expanded in the Russian version, II, pp. 1055-1069); FNKhF VI, pp. 4363-5 (29 manuscripts). Other BL copy: Or. 2887.

Begins: Ta‘ālà Llāh Khāliq kull shay’ * Va jall Allāh Rāziq kull shay’ Basmala Qādir Khudā’ī va Laṭīf Rāhnamā’ī ki kulāh-i arzāq va ravāq-i mu‘allaq-rā varā’-i navāẓir-i pasandagān-i ḥijāb-i ‘ālam-i ghayb gardānīd

Ends: Umīd ba-fażl-i Ḥaqq ‘azz ismuh chunānki īn jamī‘-i sabab-i ijtimā‘-i ahvā’ va ittifāq-i ārā’-i khalāyiq gardad va dar khidmat-i Pādshāh-i Barr va Baḥr adām Allāh mulkah va imdād-i ri‘āyat-i āsmānī ba-Janāb-i A‘là mutavātir va mutażā‘if Innah al-Qādir ‘alà zálik va l-Mutaṭavil bih

Iran. Colophon, f. 68r. Dated Rajab 1282/November-December 1865. Copied by Muḥammad ‘Alī al-Ḥusaynī called Vajdī.

Calligraphic nasta‘līq. Qur’ānic and other Arabic passages in naskhī. 15 lines. Headings, overlinings, and some verses in red. Text frames: black and gold. Exquisite gilt and polychrome illuminated headpiece. Interlinear gilt text opening, 1v-2r. Off-white paper of medium thickness, sized. 68 folios. 261 x 160 mm.; text area 179 x 88 mm. Blue marbled endpapers. Red morocco binding with gilt ornamentation in European style around the edges.

Purchased from Christie's South Kensington (26 October 2007, lot 297).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 68 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 261 × 160 mm.
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History

Origin: Rajab 1282 (November - December 1865) AH ; Iran

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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