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Summary of Contents: 9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Persian literature, Mogul Empire, India, and Persian poetry
1.
Author: ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad, 1555 or 6-1590 or 91
Title: Qaṣāʼid
Title: قصائد

Qasidahs. Incomplete at end

Incipit: ای متاع درد در بازار جان اندخته گوهر هر سود در جیب زیان انداخته

Language(s): Persian
2.
Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710
Title: Rūznāmah-’i vaqāyiʼ-i muḥāṣarah-’i Dār al-Jihād-i Ḥaydarābād
Title: روزنامۀ وقايع محاصرۀ دار الجهاد حیدرآباد

A journal of the seige of Ḥaydarābād by Aurangzeb, 1618-1707 in AH 1097

Incipit: دمي كه مدرس كشاف صبح بر صفه صدق
Explicit: بتاريخ بيست و ششم شهر ذيقعده سنه هجريه نبويه 1253||
Language(s): Persian
3.
Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710
Title: Ḥusn va ʻishq
Title: حسن وعشق
Incipit: حديث عشق شد زيب بيانم چو شمع افتاد آتش بر زبانم
Language(s): Persian
4.
Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710
Title: Risālah-i hajv-i ḥukamā
Title: رساله هجو حکما
Incipit: حکیم علی الاطلاق از دار الشفاء رحمت
Language(s): Persian
5.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Persian poems by various poets
Language(s): Persian
6.
Author: Nāṣir ʻAlī Sirhindī, d. 1697 ناصر علي سرهندي
Title: Untitled mas̲navī of a mystical character
Incipit: الهى ذره دردى بجان ريز شرر در پنبه زار استخوان ریز

Language(s): Persian
7.
Author: Rāz̤ī, Faṣạ̄hat Khān راضي، فصاحت خان
Title: Shahrāshūb
Title: شهرآشوب
Incipit: بيا بلبل كه كل ساغر بدست است گلستان ز شکوفه شیر مستست

Language(s): Persian
8.
Author: Salmān Sāvajī, d. 1376 سلمان ساوجى
Title: Qaṣīdah
Title: قصيده

Language(s): Persian
9.
Author: Anvarī, Awḥad al-Dīn, d. 1189 or 90 انوري، اوحد الدين
Title: Persian poems

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
1-37 f. 38-90 f. 91-102 f. 103-106 f. 107-117 f. 118-155 f. 156-165 f. 168 f. 169-170 f.
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Nasta'liq

History

Origin: 1253 AH; 1838 CE 1254 AH; 1839 CE 1253 AH; 1838 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

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