Delhi Persian 1570* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Summary of Contents: Untitled epistolary treatise comprising the Sufi and personal correspondence, verses, and puzzles, by Jāmī, compiled from various unidentified sources by an unnamed editor.

Language(s): Persian, Arabic

Untitled epistolary treatise comprising the Sufi and personal correspondence, verses, and puzzles, by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad Dashtī Hiravī takhalluṣ Jāmī, compiled from various unidentified sources by an unnamed editor.

Dated colophon (f. 65r): completed by Sharīf Ibrāhīm, Thursday, 25 Rajab in RY 33 [of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I?], 1102/24 April 1691.

Nastaʿlīq occasionally tending toward shikastah āmīz.

Corrections and annotations in margins and interlinear spaces.

Folios unbound; stains, cropped, wormholes, torn and creased.

Condition very fragile.

Author: Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad Dashtī Hiravī takhalluṣ Jāmī

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 65 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 251 × 168 mm.

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History

Origin: 25_Rajab_1102 AH; 24 April 1691 CE ; 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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