Manuscript codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Condition: This manuscript was bound out of order when it was remargined and some leaves were apparently lost; several leaves do not line up with the catchwords. Several ghazals are partially omitted and several lines are inversed and/or repeated. 15 ghazals have been omitted entirely from this manuscript, and it is missing the ḥamd. (For more details, ask for collection file at the Hanna... Collation: Paper, fol. i (later paper) + 80 (text panel written on gold-flecked wove paper, now trimmed to 156 x 72 mm; ruled borders from a different wove paper source 167-156 x 81-72 mm, then re-margined with laid paper 231 x 135 mm; foliated backwards in later pencil 80-1); original collation cannot be determined; catchword on final leaf indicates that this manuscript is incomplete. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 15 lines, with inner column borders double-ruled in ink; borders of text panel ruled in blue, black, gold, and red; outer borders on later paper in blue; catchword in bottom inner margin on verso of each leaf. Script: Written in nastaʻliq script in black ink. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Binding: full red morocco over boards; gold stamped central mandorla and cornerpieces with blind tooled borders; blue paper pastedowns. Origin: Written in Mughal India in approximately the 18th century. No colophon in manuscript in its present form. Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms1727. "From the Galerie R.G. Michel in 1912, and in the Michel private collection (1880-1963), thence to descendants"--Dealer description from Antiquariat InLibris. Purchased by the University of Chicago from Antiquariat InLibris (#64029) of Vienna, Austria in 2025.
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