A PARTIAL APPENDIX TO THE FARHANG-I JAHANGIRI PERSIAN DICTIONARY
Northern India, 19th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 50ff. plus two brown endpapers, the first annotated with English provenance information in 19th-century handwriting, 23ll. of black and red nasta’liq script to the page, with catchwords, in a later cotton binding on board, the folio 26.5cm x 15.5cm.

The Persian dictionary composed by Anjavi Shirazi and dedicated to the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605 - 1627) in 1622 is a much-liked text for furnishing the meanings with poetic examples, turning it into an unwitting anthology of Persian poetry.