Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 854D (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Laṭīfah-'i Zakāʾīyah by Zakāʾ Allāh ibn Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭabīb al-Dihlavī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Lexicographic selection by [Ḥakīm al-Ḥukamāʾ Ḥāz̲iq al-Mulk] Zakāʾ Allāh [Khān] ibn Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭabīb al-Dihlavī, based on the Qarābādīn or pharmacopoeia of the author’s father and grandfather.

Partially dated colophon (f. 151v): completed by ʿAbd Allāh in Shāhjahānābād, Saturday, 1257/1841.

Rough nastaʿlīq declining into a hand scarcely legible.

Dense annotations added at the end.

Stamped foliation.

Plain paper dust wrapper.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 153 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1257 AH; 1841 CE Shāhjahānābād ; India, Delhi, Shahjahanabad

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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