Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1040A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Commentary on Rumi’s Masnavi

Contents

1 copy of Sharḥ-i Mas̲navī by Muḥammad Nūr Allāh Aḥrārī Akbar'ābādī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Commentary on the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 670/1271) by [Mīr] Muḥammad Nūr Allāh Aḥrārī [Akbarābādī].

The work heavily references as a later authority the commentary by the Timurid scholar and historian, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf the munshīʾ.

Not dated at end.

Small and tight scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz.

Annotations and corrections in margins.

Stamped and Persian foliation.

Binding damaged, spine intact (tooled reddish brown leather exterior embellished with medallions and outer bands of oxidised silver); doublures reddish leather with rulings.

Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition very fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 112 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 264 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/14_f095r

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