Delhi Persian 1041A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Commentary on Rumi’s Masnavi
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1 copy of a work by Shukr Allāh
Untitled commentary on the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d. 670/1271) by Shukr Allāh, epitomising the commentaries of earlier writers.
The work is dedicated to the Timurid or Mughal Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I (d. 1119/1707), submitted through and corrected by the emperor’s early associate and governor of Akbarābād, ʿĀqil Khān the ʿĀlamgīr Shāhī.
Dated colophon (f. 184v): completed by Mīr ʿAlī Sihrindī, 5 Ramaz̤ān in RY 47 [of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I], 1115/12 January 1704.
Lacunae after folio 185.
Neat scribal nastaʿlīq.
Annotations and corrections in margins, with Urdu verses on opening flyleaves.
Stamped foliation.
Lacking binding.
Two inner paper wrappers with wormholes. Outer loose folded paper wrapper (BEIC Madras legislation: printed by W Ridsdale, Bengal Military Orphan Press, Calcutta, 1846), dated watermark (T H Saunders & Co 1845); Bengali annotations; creased, torn, and stained.
Folios unbound and occasionally disordered; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.
Condition very fragile.
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