Delhi Persian 65B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Valiullah’s Musaffa
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1 copy of Kitāb al-muṣaffá by Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, 1702 or 1703-1762 or 1763
Treatise on comparative Sunnī jurisprudence, based on the Kitāb-i muvaṭṭā of Mālik ibn Anas, praised as the best in matters of fiqh
Note dated, antedates marginal notes
Notes and recitation notes on margins and flyleaves (by one Shaykh Muḥammad ʿĀshiq) dated 1177/1763-4 (sic, read 1188/1774-5), including a circular table calibrating astrological, banglah calendrical, and directional systems
Seal impression at beginning and end dated 1188/1774-5
Unbound; torn, wormholes, brittle paper; fragile
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