Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 409 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

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Navādir al-maṣādir by Tīkchand Bahār

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Grammatical treatise on the advanced use of Arabic infinitives or maṣdar, more properly, verbal nouns, explaining through Persian poetry, written by the secretary or munshīʾ active at the chancery of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, Rāy Tekchand (Tīk Chand) takhalluṣ Bahār(d. 1180/1766).

The treatise comprises a muqaddimah, twenty-four sections termed bāb, and concluding with a khātimah.b

This copy was collated with the author’s manuscript according to a note following the colophon.

Dated colophon (f. 109v): completed by Lachhī Rām Pandit for Mawlavī Muḥammad Ṣadr al-Dīn ṣāḥib at the time he was installed as the Ṣadr al-ṣudūr to the Honourable East India Company, Wednesday, 17 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1248/14 August 1832.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Condition poor.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 110 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 177 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 17_Rabi-I_1248 (14 August 1832); 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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