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Inshā-yi Mādhava Rāma. Inshā-yi Dilkushā.
انشاى مادهو رام. انشاى دلکشا.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1958
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mādhava Rāma.
- Standardized Title:
- Inshā-yi Mādhava Rāma.
- Language:
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing, Persian.
- Persian prose literature.
- Persian letters.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Pushkar Sohoni, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 133 leaves : paper ; 253 x 165 (201 x 100; 220 x 120) mm bound to 258 x 170 mm
- Other Title:
- Inshā-yi Mādhū Rām.
- انشاى مادهو رام.
- انشاى دلکشا.
- Place of Publication:
- [India?], A.H. 1224, 1259 (1809, 1843)
- Language Note:
- Persian.
- Summary:
- Two works on composing letters in Persian. The works were copied at different times and by different scribes and then bound together.
- Contents:
- 1. f. 1v-89r: Inshā-yi Mādhū Rām / Mādhū Rām
- 2. f. 91r-130r: Inshā-yi Dilkusha / Sayyid Nis̲ār ʻAlī Bukhārī Barīlvī.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction of first work (f.1v) and introduction of second work (f. 91r).
- Foliation: First work foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto; continuous foliation added to second work in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: 14-20 long lines.
- Script: Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red.
- Binding: Half covers; brown leather spine and corners with plain laid paper sides over pasteboard. Spine is cracked and missing pieces, fabric spine lining is clearly visible. Plain paper pastedowns.
- Origin: Likely copied in India; Inshā-yi Mādhū Rām was copied in 1259 (1843) (f. 89r); Inshā-yi Dilkusha was copied in A.H. 1224 (1809) (f. 130r).
- Bound with Inshā-yi Dilkusha.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1958.
- Contains:
- Inshā-yi Dilkushā.
- انشاى دلکشا.
- OCLC:
- 1061859381
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