Delhi Persian 34 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

A volume containing different works

Summary of Contents: 8 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Koran, Koran Recitation, Quotations, and Caliphs

1. ff. 1-22v

A work on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān. The authorʼs name is not mentioned, but the date of composition is given in the colophon as the 5 Rab I 1257

written for Muḥammad Karīm Allāh

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

2. ff. 23v-31rv

Author: Shaykh Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-jazāʼī al- Shafāʼī شیخ محمد بن محمد الجزائي الشفائى

Title: Muqqaddimat al-Jazarīyah

Title: مقدمة الجزریه

A well known poetical treatise on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān

Finished on Ramaz̤ān 1236

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

3. ff. 32v-39v

Author: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf عبد الرحمان بن یوسف

Title: Maʻrifat al-qirāʼah

Title: معرفة القرائة

A work on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān, composed in the time of the Emperor Awrangzīb (1068-1118/1658-1707)

Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 34e (British Library).

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

4. ff. 40r-45v

Author: Unknown

Title: Untitled

A work on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

5. ff. 45v-50v

Author: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf عبد الرحمان بن یوسف

Title: Maʻrifat al-qirāʼah

Title: معرفة القرائة

A work on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān

Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 34c (British Library).

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

6. f. 50

Author: ʻAlī bin Hāsham al-Dīn علی بن هاشم الدین

Title: Nas̲r-i al-laʼālī

Title: نثر اللئالى

The sayings of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661, alphabetically arranged

Language(s): Persian

7. f. 51v-54r

Author: Unknown

Title: Naẓm-i Ḥāsim

Title: نظم حاسم

A metrical work on the pronunciation of the Qurʼān in fifty-six verses composed in 1099

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

8. f. 55

Author: Luṭf Allāh لطف الله

Title: Untitled

A metrical list in twenty three verses of the sūrahs of the Qurʼān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 58 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 29.5 × 17.5 in.

Hand(s)

Fairly legible nastaʻlīq and naskh

Copyist for work 3, apparently Muḥammad Karīm Allāh

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Binding

19th century marbled board binding with leather border

History

Origin: after 1841 CE

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Manuscript description based on Arberry, Levy and Storey: Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 3. (Unpublished)

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