Collection of the author's ghazals and muqaṭṭaʻāt, arranged alphabetically by rhyme.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon on leaf 166b; parts of the statement of responsibility are too long or illegible.
Physical description: 16 lines per page, in two columns; written in taʻlīq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper, some of which is dyed mustard yellow or brown. Catchwords and some marginal notes; on some leaves text is written on a diagonal or parallel to the spine. Some insect damage, mainly marginal, mild damp staining, and some paper repairs.
Origin: 11 Shaʻbān 1153 H [1 November 1740] in Ḥaydarābād, by Muḥammad Saʻīd valad-i Muḥammad Nafīs awlād-i Ḥaz̤rat Sayyid Ḥasan Dānishmand (leaf 166b).
Incipit: از بسکه رىخت رنک جنون بر سرم هوا * سودا بپاى بست ز مغز سرم حنا
Binding note
Rebound in cloth.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
On leaf 1a are several effaced owner's stamps. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 34
OCLC
844777221
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