Delhi Persian 1185 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Sayings of the Central Asian saint, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī, known as the Naqshband (d. 791/1388).

Not dated at end.

Notes of ownership and seal impressions effaced on both sides of folio 1.

Item b.

Untitled collection of the dicta or fiqarāt ascribed to the Ṣūfī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490).

Dated colophon (f. 123r): completed by Shaykh Jiyā Qurayshī at Agra, salkh (29) Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah 1035/21 September 1626.

Collation note at end.

Item c.

Treatise collecting the teachings and thoughts of the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by Muḥammad Pārsā (d. 822/1420).

Not dated at end.

Collation note at beginning.

Seal impression and notes effaced at beginning.

Item d.

Treatise collecting the teachings and thoughts of the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by his disciple, the theologian and author of a tafsīr of the Qurʾān, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5).

Dated colophon (f. 188v): completed Monday, 7 Jumādá I 1036/24 January 1627.

Collation note at beginning.

Item e.

Brief treatise on conduct in the course of the greater and lesser pilgrimages to Makkah, ḥajj and ʿumrah, respectively, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Item f.

Rare treatise on the tenets of the Naqshbandi school of Sufism by Khvājah Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490), conventionally thought to be lost, and later translated into Chaghatay Turkic by the Timurid or Mughal ruler, Emperor Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (d. 1530).

Not dated at end.

Seal impression and notes effaced at beginning.

Item g.

Rare treatise on early Ṣūfī saints and their associated miracles, largely based on information supplied by or at least attributed to the saint and founder of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388), compiled by his disciple, the theologian and author of a tafsīr of the Qurʾān, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5).

Not dated at end.

Item h.

Untitled Ṣūfī treatise on mystical perfection and communion with the divine, by an unnamed author, though the work is occasionally attributed to Jāmī.

Not dated at end.

Item i.

Ṣūfī treatise arguing the Prophet Muḥammad embodies the concept of insān-i kāmil or the perfect man.

The work does not name the author, but describes him as a disciple of Yaʿqūb, that is, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUs̲mān ibn Maḥmūd Ghaznavī Charkhī (d. 838/1434-5), himself the disciple of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Bukhārī the Naqshband (d. 791/1388).

According to a note on folio 217a, the author is identified as Mullā Muḥammad Amīn Gurgī or Kurgī, who otherwise remains unknown.

Not dated at end.

Collation note at beginning.

Item j.

Brief treatise commenting on the Ṣūfī mnemotechnical phrase, ‘hūsh dar dam va khilvat dar anjuman’, with the aid of quotations from the Qurʾān and Ḥadīs̲, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Seal impression effaced at beginning.

Item k.

Untitled hagiography on the dicta and life of the Naqshbandī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490) by an unnamed, but intimate junior associate.

Occasionally dense annotations in margins.

Dated colophon (f. 346v): completed on the morning of Friday, 16 Jumādá II 1036/4 March 1627.