Delhi Persian 586 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Volume containing two works (a, b)

Summary of Contents: A composite volume containing two separate manuscripts (a) Taz̲kirat al-muʿāṣirīn by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn and (b) Manāẓir al-inshā’ by Maḥmūd Gāvān.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. ii+95+i; ff. 62v-64r blank.

Foliation:

Foliation in roman numerals in pencil.

Condition

Fair.

Additions:

Contents note in Persian on f. i recto.

Binding

Marbled board binding dating from the 19th century.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 62v, 64r, 95v).

History

Origin: Early 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Delhi Persian 586a

Biographical notices for contemporary poets, completed in 1165 (1752).

ff. 1v-62r

Author: Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, ca. 1692- ca. 1766 محمد علي حزين

Title: Taz̲kirat al-muʿāṣirīn

Title: تذكرة المعاصرين

Colophon: Colophon (f. 62r): completed by ʻAz̤mat Allāh Ajmīrī on 13 Rabīʻ I, 1249 (31 July 1833).

Language(s): Persian

References

Based on C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/16, f. 44.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Fine burnished white paper.

Extent: 62 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 274 × 173 mm.

Collation

Catchwords.

Layout

Mixed prose and verse, with verse in 2 columns, 15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red. Copyist ʻAz̤mat Allāh Ajmīrī.

History

Origin: 13 Rabīʻ I, 1249 AH (31 July 1833) ; India

Delhi Persian 586b

Summary of Contents: Manual on the art of literary composition by the Bahmanid minister, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Gīlānī known as Maḥmūd Gāvān.

ff. 64v-95v

Author: Maḥmūd Gāvān, ca. 1411-1481 محمود گاوان

Title: Manāẓir al-inshā’

Title: مناظر الانشاء

Incomplete, lacking final folios.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Course brown paper.

Extent: ff. 64v-95v.

Dimensions (leaf): 274 × 173 mm.

Collation

Catchwords.

Layout

16 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink

History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description of whole volume completed by Ursula Sims-Williams.

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