Delhi Persian 1016 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a. Catalogued as no. 14 (p. 15) by Quraishi and Sims-Williams, Urdu MSS in IOL, 1978.

Untitled Urdu treatise, endorsed above as Risālah dar sharḥ-i bayt-i Mas̲navī-'i Mawlānā Rūm, commenting on the opening bayt or couplet from the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī of Rūmī Balkhī , by Muḥammad Munīr Khān, who is presumably the same as Navvāb Munīr Khān entitled Aʿẓam al-Dawlah Muʿīn al-Mulk Qasvarjang, author of the Persian grammar, Zāʾid al-favāʾid, dated 1231/1815 (see BL Delhi Persian 1534a).

The work was modelled on a similarly themed Persian work by Jāmī, the Sharḥ-i baytayn-i Mas̲navī.

Not dated at end.

Distinct scribal nastaʿlīq.

Item b.

Untitled treatise on the elementary principles of Sufism illustrated through a systematic commentary on the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī by Muṣṭafá ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mūsavī al-Ḥusaynī al-ʿAlavī.

The work consists of five sections termed maṭlab and a concluding khātimah.

Dated colophon (f. 26v): completed 29 Shaʿbān 1246/12 February 1831.

Item c.

Treatise summarising the doctrine of tawḥīd or divine unity in Sufism by Sayyid Navāzish ʿAlī ibn ʿAẓmat Allāh Bilgrāmī with the takhalluṣ "Faqīr" (d. 1167/1753-4).

Dated colophon (f. 35r): completed by Fatḥ Khān, 2 Jumādá I RY 36 [of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam]/circa November 1794, in the ḥavelī of the Ḥaz̤rat ṣāḥib-i Khurdah, Fatḥ ʿAlī Khān ṣāḥib-jīv, at Shāhjahānābād.

Cramped scribal shikastah āmīz.

Cropped; edges remounted.

Item d.

Arabic prayer on release from troubles, conventionally titled Duʿāʾ tunjīnā.

Not dated at end.

Neat scribal naskh.

Item e.

Treatise describing the genealogy of Sayyid Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī based on different traditions, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.