Delhi Persian 955 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Sufi commentary, A'inah-yi haqa'iq numa
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1 copy of Āʾīnah-'i ḥaqāʾiq'numā
Rare unidentified Sūfī commentary on the metaphysical and cosmological work Jām-i Jahān'numā attributed here to Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad [ibn] ʿIzz al-Dīn "Maghribī", also known as Muḥammad Shīrīn (d. 809/1406), by an unnamed author
The work, transcribed in fine scholarly nastaʿlīq, contains several diagrams, of which one example (ff. 62v-63r) is particularly detailed
Dated colophon (f. 86r): 5 Muḥarram 1035/7 October 1625
Defective at beginning; torn, wormholes; net overlay; rebound
Octagonal seal impressions and inscriptions (ff. 1v, 86v): mālikuhu khātimuh (seal:) Rukn al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī [Emperor Farrukhsiyar regnal year] 3, 1127/1715
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