RSPA 80 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

1 copy of Forms of Oaths held binding by the Hindus by ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Khān

Language(s): Persian

Title: Forms of Oaths held binding by the Hindus

Author: ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Khān علی ابراهیم خان

Incipit: طریق قسم که در دهرم شاستر متاچهرا و شاستر دیب تت

Explicit: نه میدانم که کدام کس گرفته است

This manuscript is bound together with several other manuscripts and is also known as MS RSPA 272.

The text starts abruptly and appears to end abruptly.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Brown woven paper

Extent: ff.10

Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 170 mm.

Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.

Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Fine condition. Some discoloration to the folios.

Layout

Hand(s)

Very neat black taʿlīq.

Decoration

Additions:

Jones has written "Divya Sapaya: an oath" on f1v.

Binding

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1740 - 1792 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.166 no.CCLXXII

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World