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[IO Islamic 2395] طلسم حيرت

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  • Ṭilism-i-ḥairat
  • This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1684 in the India Office collections.
  • [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2395 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1684

Ṭilism-i-ḥairat (طلسم حيرت).

The magic of amazement, an allegorical mathnawî by Bîdil (styled on the fly-leaf نظم حيرت), composed according to Sprenger, Catal., p. 379, A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713), and beginning:

بنام آن كه دل كاشانۀ اوست

نفس كرده متاع خانۀ اوست

No date; but on ff. 1b and 105a there are seals of Ḳâsim ‘Alî Mîrkhân, with the date A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777), see above, No. 1680.

No. 2395, ff. 105, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clumsy Nasta’lîḳ, often quite like Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 4½ in.

 

 

 

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