Delhi Persian 1239 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Sharḥ-i Qirān al-saʿdayn by Nūr al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī

Summary of Contents: A commentary on the poem Qirān al-saʿdayn, by Amīr Khusrau Dihlavī (1251-1325), composed by Nūr al-Ḥaqq ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Mashriqī al-Dihlavī al-Bukhārī (d.1662-3)

Author: Nūr al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī نور الحق دهلوی

Title: Sharḥ-i Qirān al-saʿdayn

Title: شرح قران السّعدین

Incipit: خطبۀ کبریا و جلال بر پادشاهی که او را آغاز و انجام نیست.

Explicit: دور نیست که گویند شمشیر بعضی اوقات از گردن اوست.

Colophon: (f. 77v) Completed on 27 Ramazan year 23 [possibly of Akbar Shah II, r. 1806-1837 (2 April 1829)].

Covers only the first part of the work.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 77.

Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 140 mm.

Dimensions (written): 152 × 100 mm.

Foliation:

Foliated throughout in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Worm-eaten and damp-stained. Unbound with broken stitching and worn-out folios at the beginning.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Indian nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and underlinings in red.

Decoration

Additions:

(f. 1r) Notices the title of the work.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 77v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: discarded EIC printed regulation: Acc. No. XXXV of 1850.

History

Origin: 27 Ramazan regnal year 23 [possibly of Akbar Shah II, r. 1806-1837 (2 April 1829)]. ; 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. 93-5. Revised by Ali Shapouran.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World