Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1574* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

Summary of Contents: Ethical treatise critiquing contemporary amorality and intended as a guide to salvation through a series of illustrative anecdotes and aphorisms, by the historian and translator active at the court of the Timurid Emperor Akbar I, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Mulūk Shah ibn Ḥāmid Badāʾūnī (d. 1024/1615?).
Language(s): Persian, Arabic

Ethical treatise critiquing contemporary amorality and intended as a guide to salvation through a series of illustrative anecdotes and aphorisms, by the historian and translator active at the court of the Timurid Emperor Akbar I, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Mulūk Shah ibn Ḥāmid Badāʾūnī (d. 1024/1615?), who wrote this work at the suggestion of the eminent courtier and historian, Mīrzā Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad, who died before the work was complete.

Dated colophon (f. 167v): completed by Muḥammad Faz̤āʾil in Shāhjahānābād, Monday afternoon, 27 Shavvāl in RY 30 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr ibn Shāh Jahān, (1094)/19 October 1683.

Scribal nastaʿlīq, occasionally shikastah āmīz.

Limited annotations in margins.

Pencil and Persian foliation.

Lacking original binding.

Binding, red half leather IOL covers.

Folios remargined, remounted and rebound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition fair.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 167 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 261 × 172 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 27_Shavval_1094 AH; 19 October 1683 CE ; India, Delhi, Shāhjahānābād

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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