Delhi Persian 96 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 3 items (a-c)
Contents
Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 96(a) Treatise on litany, invocations, and remembrances for meditation in Sufi ritual by an author identifying himself simply as Jaʿfarī, inspired by the author’s master, Hamadhānī, `Alī ibn Muhammad 1314-1385.
Defective at end.
Not dated on end.
Illuminated sarlawḥ on the opening folio, with gilt and blue rulings limited to folios 1v-2r.
The text on folio 117r (with the verso left blank) is repeated on folio 118r.
Delhi Persian 96(b) Excerpt possibly from a historical work mentioning the emergence of an unidentified disease among Romans. This is followed by a ghazal on the appearance of a star identified as the Sitārah-i Shukr Yildūz by an unnamed author. This is followed by instructions on entering a mosque.
Not dated at end.
Delhi Persian 96(c) . Another leaf, possibly the concluding folio, from the item Delhi Persian 96 a, in the same hand.
The work does not appear to flow from folio 126v.
Not dated at end.
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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