Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1124C (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Nizami’s masnavi, Makhzan al-asrar

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1 copy of Makhzan al-asrār by Niẓāmī

First mas̲navī from the collection of allegorical and Ṣūfī-inspired quintet or Khamsah of poems by Ilyās Abū Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muʿayyid Ganjaʾī (d. 599/1203).

Summary of contents on flyleaf (f. 1Ar).

Dated colophon of doubtful authenticity (f. 167r): completed by Ilāh Bakhsh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Qurayshī at Tabbah Lāvar in parganah of Mīrath (Lawar, Meerut, UP State), in the district of dār al-khilāfat Shāhjahānābād, 15 Jumād l-Avval (sic: Jumādulavval) in RY 29 of Emperor Awrangzīb (=ʿĀlamgīr I), 1094/12 May 1683.

Replacement leaves (ff. 3-7).

Rough scribal nastaʿlīq.

Dense and detailed annotations and corrections in margins throughout.

Stamped and Persian foliation.

Binding damaged, detached boards (brown leather exterior, pinkish brown leather doublure); delaminating, exposing inner matter (Kaithi text).

Dust wrapper over text block, Oriental paper.

Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition very fragile.

Language(s): Persian, Arabic, Kaithi

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 168 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 161 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 15 Jumādá al-Avval in RY 29 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I, 1094 AH; 12 May 1683 CE Tabbah Lāvar, parganah Mīrath ; India, Uttar Pradesh State, Meerut, Lawar

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/13_f064r

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