Delhi Persian 148 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Poems and commentary on Nāṣir ʿAlī Sirhind, 2 items (a-b)

Summary of Contents: Literary collection of selections from the poems of Nāṣir ʿAlī of Sirhind accompanied by a later commentary. Volume not dated. Rough nastaʿlīq, Indian taʿlīq, and shikastah āmīz, by multiple hands. Extensive annotations. Lacking foliation. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication, 1851); watermarked (Britannia/Minerva seated in crowned oval frame; [San]ders & Co., [18]49); labels, torn and stained. Folios mostly unbound, occasionally disordered with lacunae; cropped, wormholes, stains, later repairs. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-28v

Language(s): Persian

Delhi Persian 148a.

Damaged fragment from a selection of the ghazalīyāt (letters alif, tāʾ, jīm, ḥāʾ) by the Sufi and poet, Nāṣir ʿAlī of Sirhind (also known as Sihrind or Sarhind), takhalluṣ ʿAlī (d. 1108/1697), writing under the patronage of Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Shāh Jahān I.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Rough Indian taʿlīq and shikastah āmīz.

Heavily annotated in margins and interlinear spaces.

Author: Nāṣir ʿAlī ناصر علی

2. ff. 30v-111v

Delhi Persian 148b.

Part of a prose commentary on the poems of the Sufi and poet, Nāṣir ʿAlī of Sirhind (also known as Sihrind or Sarhind), takhalluṣ ʿAlī (d. 1108/1697) by a critic partially named al-Riz̤avī al-Ḥusaynī, who wrote in 1183/1769 under instruction of his ustād or master, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Vāḥid.

The work ends abruptly without formal conclusion or a colophon.

Not dated at end.

Rough nastaʿlīq and Indian taʿlīq on buff paper changing to a finer and paler type after folio 93.

Language(s): Persian

Author:

Title: Miftāḥ al-daqāʾiq taftīḥ bāb al-ḥaqāʾiq

Title: مفتاح الدّقائق تفتيح باب الحقائق

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 112 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 165 mm.

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History

Origin: Second half of the 18th century 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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