Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1370 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Poems of Tajalli Shirazi, 3 items (a-c)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of poems mostly by the poet Tajallī Shīrāzī (d. 1085/1674). Volume not dated. Scribal shikastah āmīz and taʿlīq, by multiple hands. Annotations. Not foliated. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper. Folios unbound; severely cropped, wormholes, creased, stained, later repairs. Condition very fragile. Erased ownership marks.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-5v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 1370a.

Brief untitled selection of eulogies or manqabat in praise of the Caliph and Imam ʿAlī in tarkībband form by the poet Mīrzā ʿAlī Riz̤āʾ ibn Ḥusayn Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Tajallī (d. 1085/1674).

Text in two columns without rulings.

Not dated at end.

2. ff. 6r-8r
Author:

Delhi Persian 1370b.

Annotations by an unnamed scribe comprised of selected quatrains or rubāʿīyāt by various poets, including Mīrzā Sanjar, ʿAbd al-Vāḥid, Ẓahīr, Hindī, Khayyām, and Ṭāhirī.

Text in six columns in alternating oblique and vertical orientations, without rulings.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3.

Delhi Persian 1370c.

Fragment from the opening of the mas̲navī on divine love by the poet Mīrzā ʿAlī Riz̤āʾ ibn Ḥusayn Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Tajallī (d. 1085/1674).

This copy is defective, as suggested by the presence of a catchword and the lack of further folios.

Text in two columns without rulings.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 8 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 99 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700 - 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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