Delhi Persian 1375A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Summary of Contents: Compendious collection or kullīyāt of poetic compositions in varied forms and genres by the physician, historian, litterateur, prose stylist, and poet, Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥakīm Fatḥ al-Dīn Shīrāzī entitled Niʿmat Khān, Muqarrab Khān, and Dānishmand Khān, takhalluṣ ʿĀlī (d. 1121/1710), who worked under the patronage of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperors Shāh Jahān I, ʿĀlamgīr I, and Bahādur Shāh I. Volume not dated; datable to the late seventeenth century. Neat miniscule nastaʿlīq and naskh for Arabic quotations. Occasional corrections and marginal annotations preserved in margins. Original folios cut out and remounted with new borders with red and blue ruled frames, wormholes; folios mostly unbound, cropped. Intermittent foliation in pencil. Later binding of reddish brown leather, damaged; labels. Condition fragile.