Delhi Persian 554E (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

The third volume (khāʾ to z̲āl) 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.

This copy is slightly defective at the beginning.

Not dated at end.

Rough scribal nastaʿlīq.

Copious annotations by multiple hands in margins.

Stamped foliation and separately foliated earlier in Persian numerals.

Binding of deep brown tooled leather (isolated areas of gilding extant), damaged; labels.

Folios mostly unbound; cropped, water stains, smudging, wormholes, later repairs.