Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3718 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Translation of Mishkat-i sharif, vol. 3

Contents

1 copy of Tarjumah-'i Mishkāt-i sharīf by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb al-Tabrīzī

Large portion from the Persian translation and commentary on the Mishkāt al-maṣābīḥ by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, known as the muḥaddis̲, usually entitled Ashiʿat al-lamaʿāt fī sharḥ al-Mishkāt by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb al-Tabrīzī, completed 1616

Consists of the third volume, extending from kitāb al-buyūʿ to kitāb al-ruʾyā

Text is prefixed with a list of contents

Poor condition

Boards delaminating, exposing inner fabric consisting of sheets of text, including accounts, letters, language exercises, and more

Boards show indications that the manuscript hay be related to the Delhi Persian Collection

Annotated throughout; notes on f. 258v end with the name Qāz̤ī Muḥammad S̲anāʾ Allāh

Not dated

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 258 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 267 × 173 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century CE ; India

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