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.
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