Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1013 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Qadiri doctrine

Contents

1 copy of Maʿrifat al-nafs by Muḥammad Akram ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Barāsavī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Treatise on Qādirī Ṣūfī doctrine and conceptions of Allāh by the Chishtī biographer and author of the Savāṭiʿ al-anvār, Muḥammad Akram ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Barāsavī, written in honour of the author’s master, a certain Shāh Rawnaq, leader of the Ṣūfī order Ṭarīqah Rawnaqīyah.

Dated colophon (f. 119v): completed 10 Rabīʿ II 1258/21 May 1842.

The volume is marked by orthographic errors.

Bold and awkward nastaʿlīq.

The work contains occasional tabulated figures.

Annotations in margins.

Additional marks in margins indicate the volume has been collated and checked for errors.

Stamped foliation.

Lacking original binding. Binding damaged, boards covered with marbled paper and brown leather edging; marbling rubbed and torn, wormholes.

Folios bound, but detached from covers; cropped, wormholes.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 119 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 144 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 10 Rabīʿ II 1258 AH; 21 May 1842 CE ; India

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/3_f088r

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