Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 246* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Ḥall al-lughāt by Muḥammad Saʿd

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Lexicographic commentary by Mullā Muḥammad Saʿdon the Laṭāʾif al-lughātof the Timurid scholar and historian, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-ʿAbbāsī al-Gujarātī the munshīʾ, which collects and explains rare and difficult words contained in the Mas̲navī-i maʿnavīby Rūmī Balkhī.

Dated colophon (f. 251r): completed by Sayyid ʿAẓmat Allāh for Ḥāfiẓ Nūr Muḥammad jīv, under the ṣūbadārī or governorship of Khān Zamān Khān Bahādur, at ʿAẓīmābādknown as Patna, Friday, 22 Jumādá al-Avval RY 1 of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 1131/12 April 1719.

Stamped and Persian foliation.

Indian taʿlīq, with Arabic quotations overlined.

Annotations.

Folios unbound; torn, creased, stained, cropped, wormholes.

Fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 251 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 140 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 22_Jum-I_1131 AH; 12 April 1719 CE ʿAẓīmābād ; India, Bihar, Patna

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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