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1 copy of Miftāḥ al-khazāʾin by Jay Rām

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

The second volume (pā to ḥāʾ) of a Persian dictionary of Persian based on the authority of copious literary citations, written by Jay Rām Dās ibn Lālah Mangal Sayn Khatrī ibn Rāy Harī Singh Shaykhar takhalluṣ Shūkhī (?).

The author dedicates the work to the Timurid (Mughal) ruler, Emperor Akbar Shāh II, completing it in RY 8 or 1228/1813, around the age of forty-one.

Dated colophon: completed at Shāhjahānābād, 3 Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah 1240/19 June 1825.

Tight miniscule nastaʿlīq on pale orange, pink, and cream tinted papers.

Copious annotations by multiple hands in margins.

Stamped foliation and separately foliated earlier with neatly transcribed Persian numerals.

Original covers lost.

Binding of combed marbled papers over pasteboard edged with brown leather, damaged (doubleurs lined with EIC ledgers); labels.

Folios unbound; cropped, water stains, wormholes.

Title: Miftāḥ al-khazāʾin
Title: مفتاح الخزائن
Author: Jay Rām جيرام

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 624 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 308 × 178 mm.

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History

Origin: 3-Zu_al-Qa‘dah_1240 AH; 19 June 1825 CE Shāhjahānābād ; India, Delhi

Provenance and Acquisition

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

1876

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