| Ms. or. oct. 487 p. 1 |
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Common data
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| Classmark : | |
| ↳ current : | Ms. or. oct. 487 p. 1 |
| ↳ alternate : | 004301 |
| Catalogue : | VOHD 25, 49 |
| Record type : | text from a multitext manuscript |
| Link to composite manuscript : | Ms. or. oct. 487, Sammelhandschrift, |
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Content and history of the book
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| Language : | Urdu |
| Alphabet : | Arabic |
| Region : | South Asia |
| ↳ Copyist : | Sayyed Maḥmūd |
| Date : | |
| ↳ copy : | Ẕ. Ḥijjah 1208/1793 |
| Author : | |
| ↳ Established name : | ʿArif-ud-Dīn Ḵẖān ʿĀjiz |
| ↳ Date of death : | 1178/1764 |
| Title : | |
| ↳ Established form : | قصۂ لعل و گوھر |
| Subject matter : | poetry |
| Content : | The love story of Prince Laʿl, son of Zamurrud Shāh, King of Bengal, and Princess Gauhar, daughter of Jawāhir Shāh, King of the Fairies, was written most probably between 1165-1175 A. H. by ʿĀrif-ud-Dīn Ḵẖān. whose poetical name was ʿĀjiz and whose nick-name was Mīrzāʾī. ʿĀjiz’s ancestors came from Balḵẖ during the reign of Aurangzeb ʿĀlamgīr (1656-1707 A. D.) and were rewarded a ‘manṣab’ on the recommendation of G̲h̲āzī-ud-Dīn Firūz Jang. ʿĀjiz was most probably born at Aurangābād but we are not informed of his date of birth. He lost his father at an early age and was supported by friends of his deceased father. When he grew older, he received the title of “Ḵẖānī” and а ‘manṣab’ from Nawāb Āṣaf Jāh and Nawāb Nāṣir Jang. He distinguished himself among his contemporaries on account of his literary taste and poetical talents. Besides his mas̤nawī, Laʿl-o-Gauhar, which became extremely popular, he left one Dīwān of his G̲h̲azals, which is in the Āṣafiyah Library, Hyderābād, Deccan. [Another сору containing Qaṣidahs and Mas̤nawīs is in Bodl. Library. (See Sachau and Ethé (Bodl.) No. 1172 and II, 2149. Spies.] He died in 1764 A. D. at Nāndeṛ and was buried there. This сору of Laʿl-o-Gauhar is fairly well written and contains 520 verses. |
| Editions/Literature : | For life and works of ʿĀjiz, see Garcin de Tassy (Lit. Hind.), vol, I, pp. 168- 169; ʿAskarī, p. 69; Bailey, p. 32, no. 67; Hāshmī (Dakhanī Maḵẖt̤ūt̤tāt), pp. 525- 529; Beale, p. 45; Qādrī, p. 96.
For other Mss. of Laʿl-o-Gauhar, see Blumhardt Hindust. Mss. B. M., p. 27, no. 55 I; Blumhardt Hindust. Mss. I. O. L., pp. 58-59, nos 110-111; Madrās, vol. I, no. 11 and vol. II, p. 590, no. 84; Sprenger, p. 599, no. 590 (As. Soc. no. 158); Hāshmī (Dakhanī Maḵẖt̤ūt̤tāt), pp. 525-529; Hāshmī (Waẓāḥatī Fihrist), pp. 636- 639, nos 798-805; Zore (Taẕkirah-e-Maḵt̤ūt̤āt), vol. III, p. 176, no. 583; ʿAlīgarh (Anjuman), nos 26-27; Āṣafiyah (Qiṣas) 642, mas̤nawī shāmilāt 627, mas̤nawī 345; Stewart, XII, p. 180; Ṣiddīqī and Riẓvī, no. 219; Garcin de Tassy (Cat.), p. 251, no. 2862 (i) and 2863; Serjeant, p. 15, no. 3 (iv). Edition: Madrās, 1873; Muz̤affar Nagar, Muṣt̤afāʾī Press, n. d.; Bombay, 1877 (Gujarātī characters). |
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Physical description
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| Number of volumes : | 1 |
| Composite manuscript : | p. 1/4 |
| Binding : | Material : green leather binding State of preservation : slightly damaged |
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| ↳ Material : | paper |
| ↳ Colour : | white brownish |
| Number of folios : | 184
p.1: 1b-20b |
| Dimensions : | 10,0 x 15,5cm |
| Text area : | 8,0 x 12,0 cm |
| Number of lines : | 13 |
| Number of columns : | 2 |
| Catchwords : | complete |
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| ↳ Style : | Arabic Script → Nastaʽlīq |
| ↳ Ink : | black red |
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Technical data
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| Cataloguer : | Datenübernahme SBB/Ahmed |
| Collection : | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz |
| MyCoRe ID: | SBBMSBook_islamhs_00051374 (XML view) |
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