Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1345 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of a work by Shāpūr

Language(s): Persian

Untitled collection of poetry in varied genres and forms (manqabat, qaṣāʾid, tarjīʿāt, tarkībāt, muqaṭṭaʿāt, ghazalīyāt, mas̲navīyāt, and rubāʿīyāt) by Khvājah Sharaf al-Dīn Arjāsp ibn Khvājah Khvājagī Ṭihrānī takhalluṣ Shāpūr (d. circa 1030-48/1621-39), an eminent imitator of the poet Fighānī, relative of the poet Hijrī and famous minister Ghiyās̤ al-Dīn Bayg Ṭihrānī the Iʿtimād al-Dawlah. The poet stayed at the court of Timurid Emperor Akbar I at Lahore for a few years, before returning to Iraq (Iran).

Not dated at end.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Folios unbound; stains, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 147 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 150 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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