Delhi Persian 787 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 253(a), ff. 1r-21r.

Untitled physiognomic treatise explaining poetic tropes, allegories, and verses thematically in accordance with parts of the human body, by an unnamed author.

The work’s quotations are routinely confined to the verses of Ẓahīr Fārābī and other early poets.

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Rough shikastah āmīz.

Delhi Persian 253(b), ff. 21r-23v.

Untitled collection selecting passages on Sufi terminology from the works of the master, Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī, by an unnamed compiler.

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Delhi Persian 1208(c), ff. 23v-27v.

Incomplete copy of a treatise in refined prose briefly extoling the virtues of named months and their animal equivalents making up the Turko-Mongol duodenary calendrical system, by Lālah Shīv Rām Lāhawrī takhalluṣ ʿĀshiq, who according to Nabi Hadicompleted a collection of correspondence, the Ruqaʿāt-i Shīv Rām, in circa 1197/1766, and was the friend of the poet Nūr al-ʿAyn ibn Amānat Allāh Lāhawrī takhalluṣ Vāqif(d. 1776).

The scribe’s orthography when rendering the Turkic names of the month is not always in accord with the standard.

The text ends abruptly without formal conclusion.

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