RSPA 73 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

Persian translation of the Srī Bhāgavat in two volumes

1 copy of Srī Bhāgavat; 1 copy of سری بهاگوت

Language(s): Persian

Title: Srī Bhāgavat

Title: سری بهاگوت

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. اول بهاکوت را گفتندکه چون ناراین جیو بر همارا از نابهه کنول پیدا تمودند

Explicit: پشد داد و خود در چنگل رفته تپشیا کرده کرپا رفته شد

This is the first volume or two. The text runs on from one to the next. Produced by the same hand.

On f1r, Jones has written, "Sri Bhagavat vol. 1. This book it is said was translated by Faiẓī"

Title: سری بهاگوت

Incipit: راویان اخبار هندوستان چنین آورده اند که

Explicit: می گویند در کاجک مر که استماع کتد او را مکت حاصل میشود

Colophon: تمام شد از کرپا سری بهاگوت که انمرجامی خلایق اند دوازدهم اسکند سری بهگوان بتاریخ پانزدهم شهر ربیع الاول هجری المقدس. بعنایت الهی و از کرپا سر رهکوان دین دیال که در همه حال در هد یک بعفمان است تمام شد و کار من نظام شد.

This is the second volume or two. The text runs on from one to the next. Produced by the same hand.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Thick white woven paper.

Extent: Volume 1: ix+144+vii; Volume 2: ix+233+viii

Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 195 mm.

Dimensions (written): 155 × 110 mm.

Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Both volumes are in excellent condition.

Layout

Hand(s)

Neat black ink nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

Additions:

There are very occasional annotations towards the start of the first volume.

Binding

Brown suede leather binding with white endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 15_Rabīʿ al-Awwal_1199 AH; 26 January 1785 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.57 no.LXXIIIa-b.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World