Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 15563 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Sihr-i halal

Contents

1 copy of Siḥr-i ḥalāl by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536

A mas̲navī poem on the love-story of Prince Jam and Princess Gul, with a preface in prose, by Muḥammad Ahlī Shīrāzī (d. 942/1535-6).

This poem has several remarkable artistic features: it has two different rhymes and scans in two metres; and each bayt contains a tajnīs.

Other contents: owner’s inscription with title and price, f. 1v.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 26 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 231 × 143 mm.

Condition

Extensive worming, but rarely affecting the legibility of the text.

Layout

11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

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Nastaʻlīq

Decoration

Headings and line dividers (four dots) in red.

Binding

Modern boards, Rafiq Binding Works, Karachi.

History

Origin: India; 1260/1844-45 AH

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased at Christies sale 12 October 2000, part of lot 223.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

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