Dictionaries [IO Islamic 11A]

Dictionaries. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 11A in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1010 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 1010. 11A. Size 13 in. by 8 in.; foll. 516. Twenty-nine lines in a page. An elegant copy of the Ḳâmûs, which was made for Molla Muḥammad Sa’îd b. Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ Mâzandarânî, commonly called Ashraf, a court poet of the time of Aurangzîb. According to a note in his own handwriting, this was completed at the beginning of Dhu’l-ḳa’dah 1111, at Dehli (فى منزلى فى الدّهلى تجاه معبد الهنود). Neatly written, on tinted paper. titles in gold. A tasteful ornament at the beginning. Gold and blue lines round the pages. Some notes. A biographical notice of Ashraf, drawn from the سرو آزاد , 1 has been added at the end. Seal of Saiyid Ḥusain, a servant of ‘Âlamgîr. Signature of Richard Johnson, Hyderabad 1785. Ticketed ׳׳Haileybury Library.׳׳ 1 See for this Tazkirah, Sprenger, Catal. Oudh, p. 143.