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1 copy of Ruqaʿāt-i mutafariqah az munshiyān

Language(s): Persian, Urdu

Title: Ruqaʿāt-i mutafariqah az munshiyān

Title: رقعات متفرقه از منشيان

Privately compiled collection or bayāz̤ for specimens of miscellaneous fine prose and poetry (including gīt and dohrah), in both Persian and Urdu (here termed Rīkhtah) or Hindavī, by an unnamed writer, possibly a munshīʾ by profession.

Not dated at end.

Nastaʿlīq, taʿlīq and ‘Indian’ taʿlīq on alternating tinted paper.

Folios occasionally disarranged.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 76 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 125 mm.

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History

Origin: 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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