Delhi Persian 1420 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Kullīyāt-i Mullā Shāh Badakhshī
Contents
The first Dīvān of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.
The second dīvān of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.
A collection of ghazals in the form of letters to the beloved.
The Sharḥ-i Rubāʻīyāt of Mullā Shāh together with his Rubāʻīyāt.
Letters of Mullā Shāh Badakhshī.
An unfinished commentary on the Qurʼān, partly in Persian and partly in Arabic.
The title Shāh-i tafāsīr is a chronogram giving the year of composition as 1057/1647-8.
The text of the Qurʼān is given in fragments, followed, as far as Sūrah 2:198, by a Persian paraphrase or translation. After verse 198 the Persian translation ceases and the comments are in Arabic and usually very brief.
References
A commentary on Sūrah 12 of the Qurʼān, composed in 1057/1647.
As in the previous work, the Qurʼānic text is given in fragments, usually followed by a short metrical paraphrase in Persian.
References
Physical Description
Pencilled India Office foliation.
Collation
Catchwords.
Condition
Rebound and partially gauzed.
Layout
Poetry arranged in 4 columns, 20 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq in black ink, headings and overlining in red.
Decoration
Illuminated polychrome headings at the beginning of each work and gold filled decorated margins for each initial opening; ruled polychrome margins throughout.
Marginal comments and corrections.
Text authenticated by the author, as in the companion volume IO Islamic 578. Note on f. 67v: قد حرة [sic] هذه النسخة الشریفة من نظر المصنف و الهکّ و الاصلاح و الحاشیة اکثر من یده
Folio 1Er contains erased seals and inspection notes dated 21 Muḥarram year 3, most likely of Bahadur Shah, i.e. (1121, 15 Mar 1709) - inscriptions in this hand of a similar date occur in a number of Mughal library mss. Further inspections are dated 19 Zu'l-Ḥijjah year 23 (of Muhammad Shah, i.e. 7 March 1741) and a record of the same date records the transfer of care from Muḥāfiẓ Khān to Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, both officials of the royal library during Muhammad Shah's reign.
Binding
Half-leather 20th century India Office red binding with a partially preserved earlier leather binding bound in (f. 1Ar), preserving blind tooled central medallion and pendants.
Oval seal of Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī, possibly dated 1115 (1703/4) on f 1Dr.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamps.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Was possibly copied under the author's supervision and was authenticated by him (f. 67v).
Was owned by Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī.
Was most likely part of the Mughal Library at least from 1709-1741 (f. 1Er).
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
Acquired by the Government of India in 1876
Availability
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Surrogates
Microfilm IOL 3145
Bibliography
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