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2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Pushto poetry

1.
Author: Ghanīmat, Muḥammad Akram, fl. 1685-1696 غنيمت، محمد اكرم
Title: Nayrang-i ʻishq
Title: نيرنگی عشق
Translator: Translated into Pashto by Momand, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, active 18th century مهمند، عبد الحميد

A Pushto translation of Ghanimat's romance of Shahid and Aziz

Incipit: پس لحمده لدروده واي دا دا پدر د ښکلي مخ ولاږ کدا
Colophon: تمت تمام شد كتاب نیرنک عشق تصنیف عبد عبد الحمیدي...تحریر بتاریخ چهارم ماه ربیع لثاني بروز دو شنبه بوقت پشین اتمام یافت سنه 1261

Language(s): Pushto

References

Mackenzie no.129
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Author: Hilālī, Badr al-Dīn, d. 1528 or 9 هلالي، بدر الدين
Title: Shāh u gadā
Title: شاه و گدا
Translator: Translated into Pashto by Momand, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, active 18th century مهمند، عبد الحميد

A Pushto translation of Hilali's story of the King and the Darvish

Incipit: دا اغاز مي پنامه د هغه خداي دي چئي نوم کره کشاي د شاه کداي دي

Language(s): Pushto

References

Mackenzie no.129

Physical Description

Form: codex
1b-62a f. 62b-122b f.
Dimensions (leaf): 21.5 × 15 cm.
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Layout

Hand(s)

Naskhi hand

History

Origin: 1a-2a f. 1261 AH; 1845 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on James Fuller Blumhardt and D.N MacKenzie : Catalogue of Pashto manuscripts in the British Isles, 1965".

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