Delhi Persian 1250 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Sharḥ-i Yūsūf va Zulaykhā by Ghulām Muḥammad

Summary of Contents: A Persian commentary on Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (also known as Maḥabbat-nāmah) of Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (1414-92), written by a certain Ghulām Muḥammad

Author: Ghulām Muḥammad غلام محمّد

Title: Sharḥ-i Yūsūf va Zulaykhā | Ghulām Muḥammad

Title: Sharḥ-i Yūsūf va Zulaykhā

Title: شرح یوسف و زلیخا

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمین و العاقبة للمتقین و الصلوة و السلام علی رسوله محمد و آله و اصحابه اجمعین اما بعد می‌گوید احقر عباد الله العلام الصمد غلام محمد

Explicit: که او تعالی از تقصیرات و زلّات این احقر درگذشته بحبّ ذاتی خود مشرّف گرداناد و بمرّ صفات خود موفّق داشته حسن خاتمة روی گرداناد بحرمة النّبی و آله الامجاد

Colophon: (f. 259v) Completed in the morning of Sunday, 19 Rabiʻ II 1235 AH (6 February 1820) by Muḥammad ʿAṭāʾ Allāh in the suburbs of Tosham (Tūshām).

The author states that he had consulted an anonymous commentary as well as the commentaries of Mūḥammad Bāqī, and Muḥammad Riz̤ā - whom he calls the middle son of Muḥammad Akram Multānī (elsewhere also known as Ghanīmat). There is a Hadyat al-Akhyār (a commentary of Jāmī’s Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār) by Muḥammad Riz̤ā.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. iii+260. Folio 260 is blank

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 157 mm.

Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.

Foliation:

Foliated on every leaf in Persian in red ink and in English in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Worm-eaten in a few pages. Detached from binding, with stitching broken especially towards the end of the manuscript.

Layout

13 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Indian nastaʻlīq tending to shikastah; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red. Copyist is Muḥammad ʿAṭāʾ Allāh who may perhaps be the same copyist as the scribe of Delhi Persian 57.

Additions:

The flyleaf contains a note about one Raḥīm-dād Khān, son of Nūr Muḥammad, resident of the middle of Multan, and his full-brother Muḥammad Karīm, another person with the name ʿAbd Allāh or ʿUbayd Allāh, someone named Ghulām Nabī and children of a qāz̤ī.

Note on f. 1r giving the name of the work.

Binding

Early binding of c. 1820.Outer binding leather with ruled yellow rectangular frames; inside pastedown of marbled paper.

Seal(s):

Rectangular seal of former owner who can presumably be identitified with the copyist: Muḥammad ʻAṭā Allāh Khān,1223 (1807/08) (f. 1r).

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 259v).

History

Origin: 19 Rabi' II 1235 AH (6 February 1820) ; Tosham (Haryana), India.

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 C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/15, ff. 144-47. Revised by Ali Shapouran.

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