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Sharḥ-i Qaṣīdah-ʼi Fāriz̤īyah by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī

Summary of Contents: A commentary on the famous Qaṣīdah al-mīmīyah al-khamrīyah of ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, often known as Ibn al-Fāriḍ (1181 or 1182-1235), by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī Hiravī (1414-92). The work was finished in Safar 875 (August-September 1470)

Author: Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī نورالدّین عبدالرّحمان جامی

Title: Sharḥ-i Qaṣīdah-ʼi Fāriz̤īyah

Title: شرح قصیدۀ فارضیّه

Has two lacunae after folios 4 and 14.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. i+45+ii.

Dimensions (leaf): 186 × 121 mm.

Dimensions (written): 137 × 75 mm.

Foliation:

Foliated throughout in pencil.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten. Detached from binding with broken stitching.

Layout

15 lines per page; poetry in two columns.

Hand(s)

Fair naskh; copied in black ink, with most of the Arabic poetry which is being commented on in red.

Additions:

(f. 1r) Notes giving the title of the work.

A folio, numbered 15 in pencil, has been inserted at the end of the work. Despite some similarities, it does not belong to this codex and has red underlinings.

Miscellaneous notes throughout the codex.

(endleaves) A poem in mustazād form (in which a short verse comes after a long verse) ascribed to Rumi (beginning with هر لحظه بشکلی بت عیّار برآمد/ دل برد و نهان شد) has been written obliquely (chalīpā), together with several rubais in a different hand.

Binding

Brown leather 18th or 19th century binding with gold onlay rectangular border.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 45r).

History

Origin: Undated, perhaps early-17th century CE ; probably 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. 163-4. Revised by Ali Shapouran.

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