Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Urdu—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Rājū Qitāl, Yūsuf, -1372 or 1373. Tuḥfah-i naṣāyiḥ. Urdu. [Browse]
• راجو قتال، ىوسف، -1372 or 1373. تحفه نصاىح. اوردو. [Browse]

Summary note

Versified treatise on Islamic doctrine and practice, with interlinear Dakhini translation which was undertaken in 1040 H [1630 or 1631] (fol. 54b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3a.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, including interlinear translation, in two columns; written in indifferent nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings rubricated; catchwords. Mild insect damage.
• Origin: Likely from India, 18th century?
• Incipit: حمدى بگويم بىعدد مرخالق جن وبشر * كرده معلق آسمان هم اختران شمس و قمر

Binding note

Full rust-brown leather with silver-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces.

Language note

Persian and Dakhini.

Provenance

Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Markaz-i Mīkrūfīlm-i Nūr, Kitābkhānah-i dargāh-i Ḥaz̤rat Pīr Muḥammad Shāh

Other title(s)

تحفة النصائح

Title given Ḥaz̤rat Pīr Muḥammad Shāh catalog

• Tuḥfat al-naṣāʾiḥ

OCLC

840121795

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