Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1056A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Nuzhat al-Arvāḥ by ʿAbd al-Vāḥid al-Ḥusaynī al-Bilgrāmī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Commentary on the Nuzhat al-Arvāḥof Rukn al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʿĀlim ibn Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī al-Ghūrī known as Mīr Fakhr al-Sādāt al-Ḥusaynī(d. circa 720/1320), a well-known compendium on Sufism in refined prose and verse, by ʿAbd al-Vāḥid ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khaṭīb al-Ḥusaynī al-Bilgrāmī "Shāhidī"(d. 1017/1608).

According to a concluding chronogrammatic poem not included here (see Delhi Persian 1056B), the commentary was completed in 985/1577-8.

Dated colophon (f. 333r): completed at the rawz̤ah (tomb) of Maḥmūd Ghaznavī( Ghazni, Afghanistan), 1106/1694-5.

Neat and disciplined scribal nastaʿlīq with rubricated headings in naskh.

Annotations and corrections in margins.

Later binding (detached boards covered in combed marbled papers edged with reddish leather; spine missing), gathering and end bands intact.

Wormholes throughout with old repair patches.

Fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 333 ff. (+8)
Dimensions (leaf): 224 × 137 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1106 (1694 - 1695) AH ; India, Afghanistan, Ghazni

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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