Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 89 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of a work by Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Untitled treatise in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad and his family, by the great theologian, poet, stylist, and moralist, Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Hiravī takhalluṣ Kāshifī.

The work was written at the order of Mīrzā Abū al-Ghāzī Sulṭān Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, the ruler of Herat.

Not dated at end; datable to the late seventeenth century.

Not foliated.

Fine shikastah āmīz and rough nastaʿlīq.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 40 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 118 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: Late 17th century 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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