Delhi Persian 1124A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

First mas̲navī from the collection of allegorical and Ṣūfī-inspired quintet or Khamsah of poems by Ilyās Abū Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muʿayyid Ganjaʾī (d. 599/1203).

Dated colophon (f. 107v): completed by … (scribe and place name erased), 22 Z̲ī al-Qaʿd[ah] 1[0]89/5 January 1679.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Frequent detailed annotations and corrections in margins.

Stamped and Persian foliation.

Binding damaged, boards covered with marbled paper and brown leather edging; marbling delaminating and torn, exposing inner matter (Qurʾān fragment; Persian correspondence).

Dust wrapper over text block, Oriental paper.

Folios unbound; cropped, wormholes, later repairs.

Condition very fragile.