Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3985 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Imdad fi ma'asir al-ajdad

Contents

1 copy of Imdād fī maʾās̲ir al-ajdād by Valī Allāh Dihlavī

Short hagiographic account treated as a separate work describing the author's ancestors

The work forms the whole of faṣl 1 of qism 3 from the larger work on the miracles and contributions of the author's family and teachers, the Anfās al-ʿārifīn

Each qism and every faṣl has been treated as a detachable work

According to Storey, the Hijrī year specified in the colophon (1213/1799) may be a mistake, and should read 1312/1895, in keeping with the period of transcription

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 8 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 274 × 177 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad Ḥasan, the student of Persian

Binding

History

Origin: 29 Ram. 1213 AH; 1799 CE ; India NB: see notes

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/9_f226r

Availability

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