Delhi Persian 1246 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Commentary by Jahaniyan on Sharafnamah of Nizami
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1 copy of Sharaf 'nāmah by Muḥammad Jahāniyān ibn Muḥammad Shāh ibn Fatḥ al-Dīn Chishtī
Lengthy and detailed commentary by Muḥammad Jahāniyān ibn Muḥammad Shāh ibn Fatḥ al-Dīn Chishtī on the Sharaf 'nāmah, part of the Iskandar'nāmahmas̲navī (comprised of the Sharaf'nāmahand Khirad'nāmah) from the Khamsah by Ḥakīm Abū Muḥammad Ilyās Ganjavī " Niẓāmī" (d. 614/1217).
This copy is characterised by orthographical and scribal errors.
Diagrams, tables, and annotations in margins.
Dated colophon (f. 142r): completed by Muḥammad Muḥkam Dīn ibn Hidāyat Allāh resident of Muḥammadpūr, written for himself, Vaysākh samvat 1875.
Rough nastaʿlīq.
Pencil foliation.
Old paper dust wrapper (fourth schedule of BEIC legal publication for 1851 drafted by Fred. Jas. Halliday, Secy. to the Gov. of India); watermark (lion rampant guardant in crowned oval, not dated); annotations in Bangālī.
Folios unbound.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
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