Delhi Persian 73 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Treatise on various aspects of occultism and Sufism, including quotations from the Qurʾān and Prophetic traditions, ascribed to Ṣūfī Khujandī

The work consists of 4 rukn and a khātimah, but presently lacks an introduction and is defective at the beginning

Many careful annotations in margins

Loose slip between ff. 112-113 with Arabic aphorisms in praise of science and knowledge, with interlinear Urdu translation

Not dated

Language(s): Persian, Arabic & Urdu

Form: codex

Extent: 160 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 135 mm.

Dimensions (written):

Origin: 17th century CE ; India

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