Delhi Persian 1010 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Untitled collection of the dicta or fiqarāt ascribed to the Ṣūfī saint, Khvājah ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār (d. circa 895/1490).

Dated colophon (f. 50r): completed at Akbarābād (Agra), Wednesday, 15 Ramaz̤ān 1059/22 September 1649.

Careful scribal nastaʿlīq. Folio 1 is a replacement by a later hand in rough Indian taʿlīq, similar to that found in item b.

Interlinear annotations and corrections as well as in margins.

Two letters of Khvājah ʿAbd al-Bāqī reproduced on folio 50v.

Item b.

Rare treatise on the tenets of the Naqshbandi school of Sufism by Sayyid Naṣīr al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥrār Ghijduvānī, known as Khvājah Aḥrār (d. 895/1490), conventionally thought to be lost, and later translated into Chaghatay Turkic by the Timurid or Mughal ruler, Emperor Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (d. 937/1530).

The work was written at the request of the author’s father, hence the title.

Not dated at end.

Oblique scribal shikastah āmīz continuing from folio 55 in rough Indian taʿlīq, probably by a different hand, similar to the replacement folio beginning item a.