Delhi Persian 1001B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Unidentified treatise on Sufism
Contents
Part of a treatise on Sufi beliefs, terminology and practice, lacking beginning and end. No title or author is mentioned.
ff. 77; end defective; 5 lines per page; nastaʻliq in a variety of hands; rubrications; 18th century.
Physical Description
Condition
Unbound; worm-eaten and torn
Hand(s)
Decoration
Binding
Loose half-leather decorated boards; paper wrapper: 1802 EIC acquittance roll
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
1876
Government of India
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