Delhi Persian 1173 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 3 works (items a-c)
Contents
Item a.
Treatise apparently epitomising a larger unidentified work on Sufism, describing macrocosmic phenomena through microcosmic analogy, based on the theories of Ibn al-ʿArabī, here composed by the author ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. circa 661/1262).
The work consists of two bāb, each subdivided into three aṣl.
Not dated at end.
Varied nastaʿlīq hands.
Detached folded interleaf between folios 32-33, with the Arabic draft of a letter addressed to a certain General Muḥammad Ismāʿīl, not dated or signed.
Item b.
Commentary conventionally attributed to Vajīh al-Dīn ʿAlavī Gujarātī (d. 998/1590) writing on the Ṣūfī treatise Jām-i jahān numā ascribed to either to Muḥammad Shīrīn Maghribī (d, 809/1406-7) or Mīr Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Manṣūr Shīrāzī (d. 948/1541), classifying the types and registers of existence and encounters with the divine.
Dared colophon (f.94v): completed 11 Shavvāl 1086/29 December 1675.
This copy contains two diagrams (ff. 43v, 52v-53r).
Novel form of compressed text within limited folio space in anticipation of the second diagram, with lines composed of oblique units of text stacked on top of each other in linear formation (ff. 49v-52v).
Annotations and corrections in margins.
Collation note at end.
Item c.
Commentary by the Ṣūfī saint, Valī ibn Mulūk Shāh al-Ṣiddīqī al-Qādirī (d. 998/1590), paraphrasing in Persian the Arabic work Risālat al-Ghaws̲̲īyah, conventionally ascribed to either Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166) or, according to Brockelmann and supported by Arberry, to Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240).
Dated colophon (f. 162r), cut and pasted onto last folio: completed 1052/1642.
Awkward but legible nastaʿlīq and naskh hands.
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