Delhi Persian 600A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī by Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1163 or 4

Summary of Contents: Adventures in rhymed prose attributed to a friend of the unnamed author, identified as Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd al-Balkhī (d. 559/1164). The work was completed, according to the preface, in Jumādā II 551/1156.

Author: Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1163 or 4 حمید الدین ابو بکر عمر ابن محمود

Title: Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī

Title: مقامات حمیدی

Colophon: (f. 116v) Completed on 18th Zu ’l-Ḥijjah 1229 regnal year 9 of Muḥammad Akbar Shāh (1 December 1814).

Language(s): Persian

Filiation: Other copies in the British Library: Rieu p. 747 Add MS 7620, and Or 11984.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. i+116+i

Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 156 mm.

Dimensions (written): 155 × 90 mm.

Foliation:

Foliated in pencil every fifth leaf.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Detached binding.

Layout

13 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red.

Additions:

Various notes on flyleaf and endpaper including a valuation of RS 10 in raqam script.

Binding

Three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards dating from the early 19th century; paper paste-downs.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 116v).

History

Origin: 28 Shavval 1244 AH (3 March 1829) ; 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

Record Sources

Based on R. Levy's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/29, ff. 1-2. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World