Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 453D (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Commentary and translation on the Muqamat of al-Hariri

Contents

1 copy of Maqāmāt

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Fascicule from a larger series of an untitled Persian translation and commentary by an unnamed author of the famous monument of Arabic picaresque and literary prose, the Maqāmātof Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarīrī(d. 516/1122).

Not dated at end.

Rough shikastah āmīz to minute nastaʿlīq after f. 9; original Arabic text initially overlined, later in bold naskh.

Binding severely damaged; delaminating pasteboard.

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 235 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 210 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1820 - 1840 CE ; 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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