Delhi Persian 1268 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Summary of Contents: A Persian masnavi by ʿUrfī Shīrāzī (1555-90), inspired by Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Makhzan al-asrār

Title: مجمع الابکار

The first part of the work only.

Language(s): Persian

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 49.

Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 130 mm.

Dimensions (written): 137 × 73 mm.

Foliation:

Pencilled foliation throughout.

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Slightly worm-eaten, including the papers used for restoration. Dtached from binding with broken stitching and worn-out folios at the beginning.

15 lines per page in two columns.

Fine nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink.

Brown leather contemporary binding, with double ruled gold frame.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. flyleaf v, 49v).

Origin: Undated, but probably 18th century CE ; India

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.

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. 171-2. Revised by Ali Shapouran.

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