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Title

Inshā-yi Mādhava Rāma. Inshā-yi Dilkushā.
انشاى مادهو‌ رام. انشاى دلکشا

Authors

• Mādhava Rāma
  مادهو رام
• Barīlvī, Sayyid Nis̲ār ʻAlī Bukhārī
  بریلوى، سيد نثار على بخارى

Other related names

• Sohoni, Pushkar, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1958
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970745763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1061859381

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1224, 1259 (1809, 1843)

Place

India?

Summary

Two works on composing letters in Persian. The works were copied at different times and by different scribes and then bound together.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction of first work (f.1v) and introduction of second work (f. 91r).
   
• Bound with Inshā-yi Dilkusha.
   

Extent

133 leaves : 253 x 165 (201 x 100; 220 x 120) mm bound to 258 x 170 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

14-20 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in rapid nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Pushkar Sohoni, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Letter writing, Persian
• Persian prose literature
• Persian letters

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuals (instructional materials)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Inshā-yi Mādhava Rāma.
• fol. 91r — Inshā-yi Dilkushā.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's stamp