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1 copy of Risālah-i dilkash ʻālī jāhī by Riz̤vī, ʻAlī Akbar
Title: رساله دلکش عالی جاهی
An Urdu treatise in 10 babs on the rearing and training of birds for singing, the chase, and fighting, with a pharmacopeia for birds and quadrupeds in the 9th and 10th babs respectively. The work is imperfect, ff.65-77 being wanting, and the last portion of the 7th of the 27 fasls detailed in the prefixed index. This may well be the original in autograph
Incipit: هزار هزار شکر خدا بر حسن دانش و و هر وحش و طیر کو کوچائي جب تك
Language(s): Urdu
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 208 f.
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Layout
Hand(s)
Nasta'liq hand
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequest of Douglas Craven Phillott Gregorian
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