Delhi Persian 1374 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Poetic anthology, 6 items (a-f)
Contents
Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 1374a.
Fragment of the selected poems by Amīr Abū al-Ḥasan Yamīn al-Dīn Dihlavī takhalluṣ Khusraw (d. 727/1327).
Defective at beginning.
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Delhi Persian 1374b.
Selected poems by Shaykh Awḥadī Marāghī Iṣfahānī (d. 738/1337-8).
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Delhi Persian 1374c.
Selected poems by ʿImādī al-Dīn Shahriyārī takhalluṣ ʿImādī (d. 573/1177).
Not dated at end.
Delhi Persian 1374d.
Selected poems by the Sufi Muḥammad Shīrīn Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Maghribī (d. 809/1406-7).
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Delhi Persian 1374e.
Selected poems by the Bābā al-Shuʿarāʾ Bābā Fighānī Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Fighānī (d. 925/1519).
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Delhi Persian 1374f.
Selection of poems beginning with Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar Samarqandī takhalluṣ Rūdakī (d. 329/941), but expanded to comprise selections of varying length from the works of many other poets, including Sharaf al-Zamān Abū Manṣūr ʿAz̤adī Tabrīzī takhalluṣ Qaṭrān, Amīr al-shuʿarāʾ Shihāb al-Dīn Bukhārī takhalluṣ ʿAmʿaq, Sayf al-Dīn Isfarangī takhalluṣ Sayf, […], Iftikhār Bukhārī, Minūchihrī Shaṣtgallah Dāmaghānī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin Sharaf al-Dīn Iṣfahānī takhalluṣ Shufurvah, Sirāj al-Dīn Qumrī Āmulī, Shihāb al-Dīn Samarqandī, [Rūḥī] Lāhijī, Muʿīn al-Dīn Sijzī (?), Shams al-Dīn Ḥidādī, Rūhī Shāristānī, Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī, Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn Fārsī, Asadī Ṭūsī, Ibn Yamīn, ʿAyn al-Quz̤āt Hamadānī, Ḥakīm Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṣandūqī, Kamāl al-Dīn Zanjābī (sic, read Rayḥānī), ʿIzz al-Dīn Shirvānī, Badīʿī Mūsīqī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ganjaʾī, ʿImādī al-Dīn Shahriyārī, Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Bākharzī, [Nāṣir] Bukhārī, Nizārī Quhistānī, Mawlānā Fakhr al-Dīn Hindūshāh, Humām Tabrīzī, Badr al-Dīn Shāshī, Imām Shihābī Sulṭānī, Shams al-Dīn Ṭāhir Nakhkhās, Abū Saʿīd Buzghush Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Rāfiʿī, Shaykh Khusravānī, Imāmī Hiravī, ʿAtīqī Tabrīzī, Jalāl Ṭabībī (?), Khaṭīb Ganjaʾī, ʿAbd al-Majīd, Ḥusām al-Dīn Bakhshī, Khvājah Naṣīr Ṭūsī, Imām Rāfiʿī Qazvīnī, Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Muḥammad Khujandī, Shams Ṭabasī, Nāṣir Bachchah (sic), Shaykh Niẓāmī, Murshidī, Abū al-Faraj Balkhī, Masʿūd Turkmān, ʿUluvvī Turbatī, Shāh [Dāʿī] Shīrāzī, [Mubārak Shāh] Ghūrī, Niẓām Astarābādī, Khvājah Naṣīr Ṭūsī, Ashharī, Shāh ʿAlī, LA ADRĪ (?), Shaykh Amīn al-Dīn Kāzarūnī, Shaykh Awḥadī Kirmānī, Khvājah Afz̤al Kāshī, and Zakī Marāghahʾī.
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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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