Delhi Persian 1148 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Treatise on Qādirī interpretations of perception through the five senses by an unnamed author writing around 1000/1591-2 at the request of one Shaykh Ṣadr Jahān, presumably identifiable with Ṣadr Jahān ibn Abū al-Fatḥ Pihānī (d. 1019/1610). Dated colophon (f. 4v): completed by Sayyid Ilyās, on the morning of Sunday Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah 10[02]/July-August 1594. Figures for the year are damaged by an intruding wormhole.

The work is written obliquely in miniscule nastaʿlīq, occasionally tending toward shikastah āmīz.

Annotation in margins.

This work is followed by a brief address to the novice Ṣūfī (f. 5r). Not dated. The hand matches the work of Sayyid Ilyās.

This work is followed by a separate, but brief, untitled treatise on mystical love beginning with an Arabic introduction, including schematic diagrams (f. 6). Not dated.

Item b.

Unidentified treatise on spiritual matters by an unnamed author.

Clear nastaʿlīq.

Not dated at end.

Item c.

Brief collection of Ṣūfī exhortations by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).

Not dated at end.

Several notes at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item d.

Untitled collection of Ṣūfī aphorisms, each introduced as amānah, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 11r): Mādhavdās 1054/1644-5.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item e.

Treatise on the nature of the soul, composed in alternating verses and summary prose passages, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).

Not dated at end.

Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 14r): Mādhavdās […].

Note at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.

Item f.

Ṣūfī tract on the nature of God by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Annotated in margins.

Item g.

Treatise on the eradication of vices originating from the ‘lower’ soul, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 23r): Mādhavdās […]. Additional note (cropped along lower edge) with the date 11 Shaʿbān RY 24.

Item h.

Treatise on the characteristics of man’s soul in prose and verse, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Several notes at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.

Annotations and additions in margins.

Item i.

Treatise on Paradise and its inhabitants, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

This work is followed by a short Arabic text on a religious subject on a small sheet of paper (f. 30v).

Item k.

Treatise on mystical love, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 31r): Mādhavdās […].

Item l.

Commentary or tafsīr of the Qurʾān (chapter 24, verse 35), by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item m.

Treatise on traditions relating to the family of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item n.

Treatise on spiritual benefits, comprised of multiple sections headed fayz̤, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).

Transcribe in fine nastaʿlīq.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated. Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 36r): Mādhavdās […].

Item o.

Treatise consisting of ten points on the metaphysical description of the human body as microcosm, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item p.

Treatise on Ṣūfī interpretations of several passages from the Qurʾān, by an unnamed author.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Clear nastaʿlīq.

Poor seal impressions (f. 43r): 1) Mādhavdās; 2) Muḥibb-i nabī [RY] 5 [of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr II]/1172/1759

Item q.

Untitled obscure Ṣūfī note.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated (cropped and faded).

Item r.

Brief treatise on absence and presence, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.

Item s.

Untitled account of a debate purporting to have taken place between Kumayl ibn Ziyād ibn Nahīk al-Nakhaʿī (d. 82/701) and Imām and Caliph ʿAlī (d. 661) on the subject of ultimate reality, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item t.

Untitled vocabulary of Ṣūfī technical terms by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Item u.

Treatise on divine substance and unity by an unnamed author.

The work is divided into five bāb.

Not dated at end.

Poor impression (cropped) of a personal ovoid seal (f. 57r): Mādhavdās […].

Annotations in margins.

Item w.

Treatise addressing multiple conceptions of barzakh or the liminal space between heaven and hell, by an unnamed author.

The concluding text runs into the right margin, transcribed obliquely.

Not dated at end.

Note at end indicating the work had been collated.

Annotations in margins.

Item x.

Fragment of a larger compendium of works by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).

The fragment is defective at the beginning and is comprised of several portions of heterogeneous origins and nastaʿlīq hands running in continued succession, with corresponding catchwords.

Not dated at end.