Delhi Persian 1129B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Second collection of the correspondence on Ṣūfī subjects of Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Munyarī, compiled by an unnamed editor, but attributed by Arberry and Levy to the compiler of an earlier collection, namely, Zayn Badr-i ʿArabī.

The work conventionally comprises over two hundred letters, of which a hundred and ninety-one and a fragment of another are found here.

This volume is defective at the end, with additional lacunae after folio 1.

Not dated at end; datable to second half of sixteenth century.

The present volume possible unites two earlier volumes, judging by the poor state of folio 250 and which does not seen to have affected the following leaves.

Clear and large scribal nastaʿlīq hand.

Later annotations in margins, several of which have been cropped, indicating the volume’s dimensions were originally larger. Consequently, the association of the binding with the text block is suspect.

Stamped foliation.

Later brown leather binding (tooled floral medallions in oxidised metallic pigment); spine broken; original labels; wormholes.

Folios unbound; beginning folios cropped and with repairs.

Letter with scroll envelope found between folios 391-392, dated and addressed.

Condition very fragile.