Delhi Persian 1296 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1296 (a), ff. 1v-11v.

Delhi Persian 1296 (b), ff. 12v-14v.

Treatise in refined prose interspersed with poetry describing and defining culinary terms for the instruction of the nation or qawm, arranged into nine sections termed bāb, by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

The work was written in imitation of treatises by Saʿdī Shīrāzī and ʿUbayd Zākānī.

Not dated at end.

Minute scribal nastaʿlīq in seven columns of text arranged in alternating orientations, reverting to simple horizontal arrangement in a single column.

Delhi Persian 1296 (c), ff. 14v-17v.

Satirical mas̲navī in the metre of the Shāhnāmah on the courtly adventures of muzaʿfar or pilaf of saffron along with other articles of food in the region of Khurāsān, by the poet Busḥāq Shīrāzī (d. 827/1424).

Dated colophons (f. 17v): completed by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, 1118/1706.

Minute scribal nastaʿlīq in four columns, reverting to text arranged in seven columns in alternating orientations.

Delhi Persian 1296 (d), ff. 19v-26r.

Mas̲navī in praise of the delights of Kashmir and India in summer by the poet Mīr Muḥammad ʿAlī entitled Murīd Khān takhalluṣ Māhir (fl. 17th cent.).

Not dated at end.

Neat nastaʿlīq.

Delhi Persian 1296 (e), ff. 26v-27v.

Untitled occultist treatise the subject of the ghālib and maghlūb or the victorious and the vanquished, expressed in numerological tables and spagiric medicine, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Rough naskh.

Delhi Persian 1296 (f), ff. 28v-47r.

Selections from untitled mas̲navī compositions by the poet Ẓuhūrī Turshīzī (d. 1025/1616).

Not dated at end.

Rough shikastah āmīz in five columns of text arranged in alternating orientations.