Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1061 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

​ Commentary on Nizami’s Makhzan al-asrar and unidentified Urdu poem

Contents

1 copy of Makhzan al-asrār by Amān Allāh Anvarī; 1 copy of ​An unidentified poem in Urdu.

1. ff. ​ 1v-88r
Language(s): Persian

​ Delhi Persian 1061a. ​ A commentary on Makhzan al-asrār by Niẓāmī by Amān Allāh Anvarī who composed it for the benefit of Ghulām Mullā Khvājah. The date of composition is given in a chronogram as 1031 (1621/62). Incomplete; 17 lines to a page, nastaʻliq; rubrications; 19th century.

2. ff. 89r-96v

Delhi Persian 1061b. ​12 lines to a page; cursive nastaʻliq; f. 1 contains 3 impressions of an illegible 6 sided seal; the poem is followed (f. 96) by a table of numbers.

Language(s): Urdu

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 96
Dimensions (leaf): 244 × 259 mm.

Hand(s)

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Marbled boards.

History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

1876

Government of India

Record Sources

Based on description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/12_f087r, f. 87r.

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