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Part of Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār

Language(s): Persian

Title: Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār
Title: تحفة الاحرار
Author: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī عبد الرحمن جامی
Incipit: مطلع الانوار مورد بدائع لفظی ومعنوی
Explicit: حرف کنار وجو بکلک هوس *** نفطه ز بر جای هد جون کس

This copy is highly defective. Missing several folio at beginning and end. Begins in the middle of prose preface and ends in the middle of Maqālah 12.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Very thin brown woven paper on yellow card.
Extent: ff.ii+59+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

The manuscript has sustained a lot of damage and has been extensively repaired.

Layout

Hand(s)

Black ink nastaʿlīq with gilded subheadings written in thuluth script.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 16th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. 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

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 43 no. L

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