Delhi Persian 903A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī by Ḥusayn Vāʻiz̤ Kāshifī
Contents
Title is recorded as Akhlāq al-Muḥsinī in note on on f.1r.
The patron's name has been erased from the colophon.
Physical Description
India Office Library stamped foliation with every fifth leaf numbered in pencil.
Collation
Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.
Condition
Good condition. The folios have been trimmed for binding.
Layout
15 lines per page, with verses arranged in two columns.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq; Arabic quotations in naskh; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red. Copyist is Abū al-Fatḥ Multānī.
Decoration
Illuminated polychrome headpiece dominated by gold and then blue but also containing red, green and brown(f. 1v).
Ruled margins in red, black, gold and blue, with blue single outer frame.
All couplets in ruled boxes.
A label glued to the binding describes the script as vilāyatī.
A piece of paper stuck to f. 64r names five books which solidify one's faith. The first of five is the current work.
Binding
Binding wrapped in dark blue cloth.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 2r, 186v).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859.
Acquired by the India Office Library as an administrative deposit 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 E207/33, f. 8. Revised by Ali Shapouran.
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