Delhi Persian 1375B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1375Ba.

Untitled collection of lyrics or ghazalīyāt, in alphabetic order, 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.

The work has been endorsed by a later hand as the Dīvān-i Niʿmat Khān ʿĀlī.

Dated colophon (f. 89r): completed by Muḥammad Ashraf Qādirī, evening of 26 Ramaz̤ān in RY 2 [of Emperor Aḥmad Shāh] (1162)/9 September 1749.

Delhi Persian 1375Bb.

Untitled tarjīʿband by the poet Mīrzā ʿAlī Riz̤āʾ ibn Ḥusayn Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Tajallī (d. 1085/1674), incorrectly attributed in the scribe’s colophon to the poet ʿAbd al-Qādir takhalluṣ Bīdil.

Dated colophon (f. 102r): completed Monday morning, Shavvāl in RY 2 of Emperor Aḥmad Shāh (1162)/September-October 1749.

Delhi Persian 1375Bc.

Untitled collection of miscellaneous diplomatic, official, and private letters issued by the Timurid (Mughal) court from around the mid to late seventeenth century.

Transcribed by many hands in combinations of nastaʿlīq and taʿlīq.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 1375Bd.

Untitled collection of eulogies or qaṣāʾid, muqaṭṭaʿāt, quatrains or rubāʿīyāt, and mas̲navīyāt by the litterateur and poet Abū al-Barakāt Lāhawrī takhalluṣ Munīr (d. 1054/1644), who flourished at the court of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Shāh Jahān I. Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Transcribed by many hands in combinations of nastaʿlīq and taʿlīq.