Delhi Persian 1163 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Arabic collection of traditions and pious exhortations that will benefit the believer at the resurrection by the "Zayn al-Quz̤āt" Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Faz̤l Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, known as Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852/1449), with a later Persian translation added in margins at alternating oblique angles.

The work consists of ten bāb.

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Set of two flyleaves preceding folio 1 bear dense annotations of Prophetic traditions in Arabic, Persian verses, and an incomplete list or fihrist of contents.

Item b.

Untitled collection of Arabic dicta by or ascribed to the Prophet Muḥammad with accompanying Persian translations and explanations by an unnamed author.

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This work is followed by a compilation of Persian traditions (ff. 48r-57r) attributed to the saint and author, ʿAbd Allāh Anṣārī Hiravī (d. 481/1088). Not dated at end. Persian annotations in margins.

Item c.

Collection of a hundred sayings in Arabic attributed to the Caliph and Imam ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, paraphrased in Persian verses in mas̲navī form by an unnamed author.

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Item d.

Collection of forty prophetic traditions followed by Persian translations and commentary by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Item e.

Collection of unidentified Arabic prayers, the first of which closely resembles parts of the Jawshan al-Kabīr prayer.

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Item f.

Collection of unidentified Arabic prayers and Persian notes by an unnamed editor.

Folios misarranged.

Not dated at end.

Item g.

Collection of unidentified Arabic prayers, prophetic traditions, Persian translations and comments by an unnamed author.

Note above the text indicates the work may relate to another entitled Fayrūz Shāhī.

Not dated at end.

Dense annotations in margins.

Item h.

Litany invoking and expounding the attributes of Allāh attributed to ʿAbd Allāh Anṣārī Hiravī (d. 481/1088), followed by his lyrics or ghazalīyāt.

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Item i.

Extract from the ʿIshqīyah inconclusively attributed here to a certain Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Vāḥid or ʿAbd al-Vājid at the end and ʿAbd Allāh Anṣārī Hiravī (d. 481/1088) at the beginning.

Dated colophon (f. 157v): completed Saturday, 7 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah in RY 4 (? ruler not indicated).

Item j.

Selected quatrains or rubāʿīyāt of the polymath and poet Abū al-Fatḥ Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿUmar Khayyām Nayshāpūrī (d. 516/1122), otherwise known as Omar Khayyam.

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The quatrains or rubāʿīyāt of other poets are occasionally inserted in the margins.

Complex page layout with text arranged in three narrow columns of diagonal text, divided by four parallel columns of vertical text, with single horizontal lines at the top and bottom.

Item k.

Extract from an unidentified Ṣūfī work in refined prose treating metaphysical love, by an unnamed author.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

The ultimate folio (166r) appears to be extracted from a book of household accounts.