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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's ornate prose works; the first four extol the virtues of the court of Ibrāhīm II of the ʻĀdil Shāh dynasty of Bījāpūr [reigned 1580-1627].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on leaf 71a.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in neat nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; a few marginal notes. Damp staining and insect damage.
• Origin: Copied by Gul Bāz Khān in Rāmpūr [India] (leaf 71a). According to Moghadam, likely 18th century.
• Incipit (text 1): سرود سراىان عشرتکدۀ قال که بنورس سرابستان حال
• Incipit (text 2): اى از تو بر اهل تخت و اکلىل سبىل
• Incipit (text 3): خرمى چمن سخن بطراوت حمد بهار پىراىه اىست
• Incipit (text 4): عصمتيان روپوش حىا پرور و خلوتىان عفت کوش پاک نظررا
• Incipit (text 5): شهىد تبسم دىدت عشره خونبها

Binding note

Rebound in cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-9a: Khuṭbah-i Nawras. Preface to a treatise on Indian music by Ibrāhīm II.
• 2. leaves 9a-25a: Dībāchah-i Khvān-i Khalīl.
• 3. leaves 25a-32a: Khuṭbah-i Gulz̲ār-i Ibrāhīm.
• 4. leaves 32a-51a: Mīnā Bāzār. A description of a bazar built by Ibrāhīm II in Bījāpūr.
• 5. leaves 51a-71a: Ruqʻāt-i Ẓuhūrī. A collection of love letters.

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Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 46

OCLC

851766097

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