Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 74* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous works

Contents

Collection of four works on Islamic ritual prayers and rites. Unbound; lacking covers

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

1

Contents

1. ff. 1r-91v

Treatise on Islamic ritual prayers, written for Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān, one of the unidentified author’s sister’s sons

Defective at beginning

Dated colophon (f. 91v): completed by ʿAbd Allāh known as Pīr Khān on Thursday, 5 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1249/22 August 1833

Heavily annotated

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 91 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 239 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 5 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1249 AH; 22 August 1833 CE ; India

2

Contents

2. ff. 93v-101r

Unidentified treatise on conditions for wearing the iḥrām robes for ḥajj or pilgrimage to the Kaʿbah shrine in Makkah's Ḥaram al-Sharīf

Dated colophon (f. 101r): completed by ʿAbd Allāh known as Pīr Khān on Saturday, 4 Jumādá al-Avval 1249/19 September 1833

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 8 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 239 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 4 Jumādá al-Avval 1249 AH; 19 September 1833 CE ; India

3

Contents

3. ff. 101v-107v

Unidentified treatise on fasting and abstinence

Dated colophon (f. 107v): completed by ʿAbd Allāh known as Pīr Khān on 14 Jumādá al-Avval 1249/29 September 1833

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 42 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 14 Jumādá al-Avval 1249 AH; 29 September 1833 CE ; India

4

Contents

4. ff. 109r-114v

Untitled collection of short poems on laudatory religious themes in various forms and genres, written in three columns

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 6 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 239 × 160 mm.

History

Origin: 1833 - 1840 CE ; India

Additional Information

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