RSPA 3 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
Contents
1 copy of Ashiʿat al-Lamaʿāt fī sharḥ al-mishkāt by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn al-Dihlavī
Language(s): Persian & Arabic
A table of contents has been added at the start of the text in a very different hand. The script is large black ink naskh and it is in Arabic. The text stops before Kitāb al-Buyūʿ.
Physical Description
European numerals in pencil.
Condition
Good condition. Minor worm damage. Supports and guards.
Layout
Hand(s)
Small nastaʿlīq script.
Decoration
There are some marginal comments in both the scribal hand and (at least) one other hand.
Inspection notes dated from regnal year 41 (1697) of Aurangzeb to regnal year 1 probably of Bahadur Shah (1707).
Binding
Standard India Office half leather binding.
Circular seal of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ houseborn of ʿĀlamgīr bādshāh ghāzī, 1115 (1704-5.
Accompanying Material
History
Provenance and Acquisition
RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins, this manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.
The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.
1876
India Office Library
Record Sources
Availability
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