Delhi Persian 1153 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Ṣūfī treatise comprised of twenty-eight majālis or discourses ascribed to Khvājah ʿUs̲mān Hārūnī (d. 607/1211) and collected by the Chishtī saint, Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī (d. 633/1236) in the mosque of Khvājah Junayd Baghdādī.

Dated colophon (f. 18r): completed by Riyāz̤ al-Dīn on Wednesday, Jumādá I 1241/14 December 1825-4 January 1826

Neat Indian taʿlīq, with Arabic quotations in naskh.

Item b.

Romantic tale of Muʿaẓẓam Shāh, son of Sulṭān Nuṣrat al-Dīn, the deceased King of China, in refined poetry and prose, based on the original Sanskrit through a Bhākhā (Hindi) translation, and described as ‘an Indian tale in Persian cloths’ by its author, Muḥammad Falāḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ Ḥusayn, who composed it in 1197/1783 according to a chronogram.

Dated colophon (f. 75r): completed 29 Ramaz̤ān 12[0]7/10 May 1793.

Note in red ink at beginning (f. 21r) identifying the scribe as Rām Nāth, written for Bābū Nārbī (?) Prashād-jīv.

Loose shikastah hand.

Item c.

Arabic treatise on furūʿ or the ancillary branches of Ḥanafī fiqh or jurisprudence traditionally ascribed to Luṭf Allāh Nasafī, known as al-Fāz̤il al-Kaydānī (d. 750/1349), here with Persian and Urdu interlinear translations (the latter in red ink), and annotations in the margin.

Dated colophon (f. 84r): completed by Sayyid Murād ʿAlī, Saturday, 1 Rabīʿ II 1244/11 October 1828.

Dense notes in Urdu follow this work (f. 84v).

Item d.

Arabic treatise on the division of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāvandī (fl. late 13th cent.), here with Persian and Urdu interlinear translation (the latter in red ink) until folio 98r, with separate Persian annotations at end.

Dated colophon (f. 115r): completed by Sayyid Murād ʿAlī ibn Sayyid ʿĀshiqī, 3 Ramaz̤ān 1244/9 March 1829.

Additional Persian notes working out examples of inheritance (ff. 117r-119r).