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تحفه نصاىح.
Tuḥfah-i naṣāyiḥ.
Author
Rājū Qitāl, Yūsuf, -1372 or 1373
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راجوقتال، ىوسف، -1372 or 1373
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/Created
[India], [17--?]
Description
54 leaves : paper ; 232 x 124 (205 x 114) mm bound to 235 x 132 mm
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1453Y
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Subject(s)
Islam
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Persian
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Manuscripts, Urdu
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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Contains
Rājū Qitāl, Yūsuf, -1372 or 1373.
Tuḥfah-i naṣāyiḥ.
Urdu.
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راجو قتال، ىوسف، -1372 or 1373.
تحفه نصاىح.
اوردو.
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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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