Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 72 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous works

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of 2 separate works on jurisprudence and Turkish lexicography. Unbound; later covers in very poor condition, delaminating

Language(s): Persian & Chaghatay Turkish

Physical Description

Form: codex

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 17th-18th centuries CE ; India

a

Contents

1. ff. 1v-32v

Rare theological treatise by the imām and nāʾib of the Deccan city, Deogiri Daulatabad, who identifies himself as Aḥmad ibn Abū al-Qāsim Naṣīr known as Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Abū Ṭālib ibn Jamāl al-Dīn al-ʿAlavī, completed on 1 Muḥarram 773/23 July 1371, after the draft was corrected and reviewed by his ustād

The work is divided two bāb on the conduct of dervishes and on the divine litany

Defective at end

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 32 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 105 mm.

History

Origin: 17th century CE ; India

b

Contents

2. ff. 34r-51v

Versified lexicon of Chaghatay Turkish in Persian, based on the Niṣāb al-sibyān tradition

Dated colophon (f. 51v): completed by ʿAbd al-Vāḥid for… (name erased) on Sunday, 21 Muḥarram regnal year 4 of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam (Bahādur Shāh I)/22 March 1710

Seal impression at end: Sayyid Saʿīd ʿAlī Khān 1167/1753-4

Language(s): Persian & Chaghatay Turkish

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 80 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 22 March 1710 CE ; India

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