Delhi Persian 1578* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1578* a.

Fragment from an untitled treatise on literary criticism, possibly a late-seventeenth-century taz̲kirah of poets, by an unidentified compiler.

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Bold rough nastaʿlīq.

Delhi Persian 1578* b.

Fragment from an untitled collection of mystical and political letters, by an unnamed author.

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Rough nastaʿlīq.

Delhi Persian 1578* c.

Fragment from an untitled collection of political letters, by an unnamed author.

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Rough nastaʿlīq.

Annotations and corrections in margins.

Delhi Persian 1578* d.

Untitled Arabic prayer or khuṭbah for the nikāḥ or Islamic marriage ceremony.

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Delhi Persian 1578* e.

Untitled sample text for the Islamic marriage contract or kābīn'nāmah.

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Delhi Persian 1578* f.

Instructions for the preparations for anti-diarrhoeal medicine by an unnamed author.

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Brief note on ḥadīs̲ follows on the next folio.

Delhi Persian 1578* g.

Untitled note advising on how to avert the evil eye by an unnamed author.

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This is followed by a large lacuna where a number of folios have been torn or cut out, leaving only stubs.

Delhi Persian 1578* h.

Untitled fragment from a slightly garbled version of the Urdu translation by Nihāl Chand Lāhawrī based on the Persian tale Maz̲hab-i ʿishq by ʿIzzat Allāh Bangālī.

Defective at end.

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Rough nastaʿlīq.

Delhi Persian 1578* i.

Fragment from an untitled Persian vocabulary with rather imprecise interlinear Urdu translations.

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