Delhi Persian 1300 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Collection of eulogies
Contents
Untitled collection of the qaṣāʾid or eulogies by an unnamed poet praising, among others, the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Akbar I (d. 1114/1605) and other members of his court.
Defective at end.
Not dated at end.
Datable to the late seventeenth century.
Original Persian foliation only.
The first folio is a later replacement.
Range of neat to rough nastaʿlīq hands on tinted papers.
Dense interlinear and marginal annotations and corrections by multiple hands. Folios unbound; excessively cropped, wormholes, later repairs.
Paper dust wrapper (EIC legal publication regulating village watchmen); partial watermarks (Britannia/Minerva in crowned oval frame; GP [1]80[2?]); torn, folded, creased, stains, wormholes; labels.
Condition fragile.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
History
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
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