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Summary of Contents: 4 works by Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 on the subjects of Persian literature, Mogul Empire, and India
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Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī
Title: Ḥusn va ʻishq
Title: حسن وعشق

Manuscript is dated A.H. 1108 which is in the lifetime of the author who died in A.H. 1121.

Incipit: حديث عشق شد زيب بيانم چو شمع افتاد آتش بر زبانم

Language(s): Persian
2.
Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī نعمت خان عالي
Title: Risālah-i hajv-i ḥukamā
Title: رساله هجو حکما

A satire in prose on physicians.

Language(s): Persian
3.
Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī نعمت خان عالي
Title: Ruqaʻāt
Title: رقعات

Persian letters.

Language(s): Persian
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Author: Naʻmat K̲h̲ān-i-ʻĀlī, -approximately 1710 Niʻmat Khān ʻĀlī نعمت خان عالي
Title: Vaqāyiʼ-i Niʻmat Khān
Title: وقايع نعمت خان
Title: Vaqāyiʼ-i Qal‘ah-’i Ḥaydarābād
Title: وقايع قلعه حیدراباد

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

Incipit: دميكه مدرس كشاف صبح بر صفحه صدق
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
1-18b f. 19-23a f. 23b-27b f. 28a-99b f.
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Layout

Hand(s)

Shikastah script except for nasta'liq at beginning.

History

Origin: 1108 AH; 1696 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

  • Persian literature--1500-1796
  • Mogul Empire
  • India--History--1526-1765

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