Delhi Persian 3B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Mavāhib-i ʻalīyah by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5

Author: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5 Ḥusain ibn ʻAlī Vāʻiẓ Kashifī, d. 910/1504 حسين بن علی واعظ کاشفى كاشفى، حسين واعض

Title: Mavāhib-i ʻalīyah

Title: بمواهب علية

Title: Tafsīr-i Ḥusaynī

Title: تفسير حسيني

This copy covers Sūrahs 37:177 (part) to 114 and is preceded by a few lines from the preceding quarter

According to a note by the colophon this copy was collated and corrected by Darvīsh Amān Allāh, درویش امان الله , in Rab I 1142 or RY 11 of Muḥammad Shāh at the Dār al-Khilāfat (Delhi)

Filiation: Other copies in the India Office Library: Delhi Persian 3A (British Library).

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 122 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 30.5 × 19.5 cm.

Hand(s)

naskhī (ff 3, 84, 117, 118 supplied in rough nastaʻlīq), Qurʼānic text in red glosses

Decoration

illuminated ʻunvān f 1Cv,

interlinear gilding ff 1Cv and 2r; blue and gold ruled margins

marginal comments

Binding

Red leather on boards with blind tooling over applied white paper

History

Origin: India; 17th century CE

Record Sources

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 (Unpublished)

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World