IO Islamic 4587 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Dīvān-i Makhfī

Author: Zeb-un-Nissa, Princess, 17th cent. Princess Zīb al-Nisāʼ "Makhfī", d. 1114/1703 Zīb-an-Nisāʾ زيب النساء

A transliteration and translation, with notes and index, of the complete poetical works of the Princess Zīb al-Nisāʼ "Makhfī", d. 1114/1703

This manuscript has the following title-page: "Divan-i Makhfi / or collected poems of the Princess Zebunnisa / daughter of the Emperor Aurangzeb, / transliterated into the Roman character with notes / and prose translations and a hundred English metrical / versions, a scheme of Persian metres and indices of / notable words and of persons and places mentioned in / the poems / by / P. Whalley M.A. / late Bengal Civil Service."

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, pages 373-4.

A selection of translated extracts from the Dīvān by P. Whalley was published at London in 1913 [For a more detailed description see Edwards 1935, page 742.]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 979 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 12.3

Decoration

Additions:

Lines varying; type written to fol. 904, remainder (index) in manuscript

History

Origin: Hijri-qamari AH

Provenance and Acquisition

This Manuscript was received into the Library in 1918, and was until 1937 located as a printed book (306.32.E.19)

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4587 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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