Delhi Persian 1366 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
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1 copy of Dīvān by Mashriqī
Collection of lyrics or ghazalīyāt in alphabetic order by the Sufi and poet, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khalvatī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Mashriqī (d. 859/1454), the son of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Tabrīzī, khalīfah or successor of Shāh Niʿmat Allāh Valī in Tabrīz, and who chose to imitate the style and content of the earlier Sufi master, Shaykh Muḥammad Shīrīn ibn ʿIzz al-Dīn Yūsuf Nāʾinī Iṣfahānī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Maghribī (d. 809/1406-7), in contrast to whom Mashriqī devised his penname.
Not dated at end. Datable to the seventeenth century.
Small scribal nastaʿlīq.
Annotations in margins and vacant spaces by multiple later hands.
Intermittent pencil and Persian foliation.
Lacking binding.
Folios unbound; water and oil stains, foxing, smudging, creasing, wormholes, cropped, later repairs.
Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication); partial watermarks (VEIC, 1811); torn, folded, creased, stains; labels.
Condition fragile.
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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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