Delhi Persian 1107 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Item a.

Hagiographic treatise collecting anecdotes relating to the saints, Shaykh Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ḥusayn [al-Ḥusaynī] al-Bukhārī the Makhdūm-i Jahāniyān (d. 785/1384), his son Shaykh Sayyid Maḥmūd Nāṣir al-Dīn, his son Sayyid Ḥāmid Kabīr, his son Shaykh Sayyid Rukn al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ.

The author, describing himself as a disciple of Shaykh Sayyid Ḥāmid Kabīr, has not been identified by name within the text. However, Storey suggests the author may be Najm al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Rukn al-Dīn Muḥammad Niʿmat Allāh Gardīzī, author of the Awrād-i Yūsufī.

Dated colophon (f. 102v): completed by Muḥammad Afz̤al for [Sayyid] Shāh Lillāhī, 19 Ramaz̤ān 1130/16 August 1718.

Severely oxidised and faded illuminated sarlawḥ in a contemporary style of floral arabesque around interlocking brackets, ʿunvān enclosing the opening basmalah on folio 1v. Gilt and coloured rulings marking the jadval of the main text.

Item b.

Account of the four-decade-long travels in the Middle East of the Ṣūfī saint, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht (d. 785/1384), compiled under his supervision by his disciple, Sayyid Maḥmūd Bangālī.

Dated colophon (f. 174v): completed by Muḥammad Afz̤al, 1130/1718.

Pale painted illuminated sarlawḥ in a later style of floral arabesque within a half-turunj, ʿunvān enclosing the opening basmalah on folio 103v. Gilt and coloured rulings marking the jadval of the main text.

Item c.

Untitled excerpt from an unidentified hagiographic source reporting the testimony of a Mawlānā Bahrām on the death and burial of the Ṣūfī saint, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht (d. 785/1384).

Not dated at end. Completed by the same hand as that found in items a-b, and probably in the same year.