Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1311 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous Sufi and Shi‘a poetry, 15 items (a-o)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collected fragments of miscellaneous poetic works on Ṣūfī and Shīʿī subjects in the safīnah format. Volume not dated; datable from early to mid-eighteenth century. Calligraphic miniscule nastaʿlīq to bold scribal shikastah āmīz by various hands, with multicolumnar arrangements in alternating diagonal and vertical orientations. Annotations, collation and editorial marks in margins and vacant spaces. Intermittent and discontinuous Persian foliation on verso, multiple foliations in pencil out of sequence. Folios mostly unbound and much disordered. Cropped, smudging, water stains, parts of text expunged and written over. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Persian, Arabic, Urdu

1. ff. 1r-11r
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 1311a.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in the tarjīʿband, murabbaʿ, mukhammas, musaddas form, in praise or commemoration of the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Qāsim [al-Anvār], Shams Tabrīzī, Ṭāhir, and Mullā Kāshī.

Not dated at end.

Author:
2. ff. 11v-14v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311b.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Afchangī and Fayz̤ī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 15r-16r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311c.

Untitled Urdu supplicatory poem addressing the caliph and Imam ʿAlī, in mukhammas form, by a poet whose takhalluṣ is not indicated.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Arabic
4. ff. 16v-18r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311d.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes including compositions by or ascribed to Ḥāfiẓ (Shīrāzī?).

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 18v-34v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311e.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām [al-Dīn Khūsifī], Anvarī, Jalālī, Sīdī/Sayyidī Sabzpūsh, Muḥibb ʿAlī, Shāh Kāshī, Ātishī, and Ḥamzah Kūchak.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. ff. 35r-48r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311f.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Kāshī, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī, and ʿAlī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
7. f. 48v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311g.

Untitled Urdu supplicatory poem addressing the caliph and Imam ʿAlī, in the tarjīʿband form, by a poet whose takhalluṣ is identified as Dāʾim.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Arabic
8. ff. 49r-71r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311h.

Untitled collection of selected eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Tarjīʿband, Amīrī, tarjīʿband of Saʿdī, Anvarī, Firāqī, Aḥmad Jāmī, Yādgār, Qāsim [al-Anvār], Shams (Dede?), Firdawsī, Mufākhir Rāzī, Asadī Ṭūsī, Khāqānī, Ḥasan Kāshī, Ṭughrā, Rafīʿ, and Āqā Muḥammad Ṭāhir.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
9. ff. 71r-73r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311i.

Untitled Urdu supplicatory poem addressing the caliph and Imam ʿAlī, in the tarjīʿband form, by a poet whose takhalluṣ is identified as . Murād

Urdu text flowing over the last folio (73v) has been expunged and written over with Arabic ḥadīs̲ passages in naskh.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Arabic
10. ff. 74r-143v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311j.

Untitled collection of selected supplicatory poems and eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Yādgār, Afchangī, Jaʿfar, Mullā Saʿīd, Mullā Sanāʾī, Vāḥid, Qāsim Kāhī, Saʿdī, Fuz̤ūlī, Kākī, Shams Tabrīzī, Mīrzā Ṣābir ʿAlī, Āz̲arī, Kamāl, Firdawsī Ṭūsī, Mihr ʿAlī, ʿAlī, [Mīr Yaḥyá] Kāshī, S̲anāʾī, Ḥaydar, Riz̤āʾ, [Muḥammad] ibn Ḥusām [al-Dīn Khūsifī], ʿAṭṭār, Hādī, Anvarī, Mīrzā Rafīʿ, Fārigh, and Jāmī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
11. ff. 143v-149r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311k.

Untitled collection of Urdu supplicatory poems addressing the caliph and Imam ʿAlī, in the mukhammas and ghazal forms, by poets identified by takhalluṣ as  Khākī and Yūsuf ʿAlī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Arabic
12. ff. 149r-216v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311l.

Untitled collection of selected supplicatory poems and eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Khāqānī, Naẓīrī, Kashfī, Jaʿfar, Salīmī, Mawlānā Shams al-Dīn, Bābā Fighānī, Khurramī, Ḥusām Ḥalabī, Bābā Salīmī Qalandar, Khādimī, Afshangī (Afchangī?), Kamāl Ghiyās̲, and Shams Tabrīzī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
13. ff. 217r-236v

Delhi Persian 1311m.

Untitled collection selected from an anthology described in a concluding subscription as the Bayāz̤-i Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī, that is, Muḥammad ʿAlī Lāhijī takhalluṣ Ḥazīn (d. 1180/1766), comprising eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Ṭughrā, Asad Allāh, ʿArshī, Jalāl Asīr, Ḥāfiẓ, Miskīn, Aḥmad Jāmī, Shafīʿ, Hāshimī, Ikhlāṣ, Khvājah Qanbar, Khāliṣ, Shāh ʿAlī Qalandar, Ḥamzah Kūchak, Ātishī, Maktūbī, and Madhūsh.

Remnants of original foliation on verso.

Defective at beginning.

Hands ranging from small shikastah āmīz, scribal and calligraphic nastaʿlīq.

Three tight columns of bayt units written obliquely and horizontally.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
14. ff. 237r-239r

Delhi Persian 1311n.

Untitled Dakhinī Urdu supplicatory poem addressing the caliph and Imam ʿAlī, in the mukhammas form, by a poet whose identity is obscured by a paper patch repairing a wormhole.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Urdu and Arabic
15. ff. 239r-264v
Author:

Delhi Persian 1311o.

Untitled collection of selected supplicatory poems and eulogies or manqabat in various forms and genres praising or commemorating the Prophet Muḥammad, the Twelve Imams and related narrative episodes, including compositions by or ascribed to Asīr, Fayz̤, Amīr Khusraw, Fakhr-i Nisāʾ, Ghulām ʿAlī, Ghavvāṣī, Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī, Shams Tabrīzī, Qāsim Kāhī, Niʿmat Allāh, Anvarī, Salmān, Anvarī, Mulāzim, Salīm, Shūkhī, and Saʿdī Shīrāzī.

The collection is defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 264 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 100 × 240 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1720 - 1750 CE ; India

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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