Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1067 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Two treatises on Sufism by Kalim Allah

Contents

Summary of Contents: A volume containing a) Sharḥ al-Taswīyah and b) Kashkūl by Kalīm Allāh ibn Ṣibghat Allāh.
Delhi Persian 1067a. ff. 1r-57v
Colophon: Colophon dated 27 Muḥarram regnal year 24 [of Muhammad Shah] (3 April 1742). Copied by Khalīfah Amīr Allāh

​A Persian translation and commentary on al-Taswīyah of Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī, ascribed to Kalīm Allāh ibn Sibghat Allāh.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

References

A.J. Arberry, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/3, f. 58.
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/12, f. 93.
Delhi Persian 1067b. ff. 58v-105v

A general work on the principles of Sufism, based on the writings of famous Sufis, and written at the request of and for the instruction of his friends in the year 1101/1689-70 by Kalīm Allāh, or Shāh Kalīm Allāh Jahānānābādī as he is referred to in the printed edition. He is likely to be identical with Kalīm Allāh ibn Ṣibghat Allāh, the author of the commentary Delhi Persian 1067a.

Undated, copied in several hands.

Filiation: For another copy in the British Library, see Delhi Persian 1094.
Language(s): Persian

References

A.J. Arberry, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/13, f. 83.
R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/12, f. 94.
Anonymous English translation: The Scallop Shell: being a Sufite practical course on Divine Union ... Rendered for the first time into English (Madras, 1910)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. ii+ii+106+i
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 137 mm.
Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Condition

Remargined and rebound in 1965.

Layout

11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; Arabic text overlaid in red and some marginal notes.

Binding

Red quarter-leather India Office binding stamped 11 Nov 1965.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 57v, 58r, 105v).

History

Origin: ca. 1742 CE ; India

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

Record Sources

Based on descriptions by A.J. Arberry and R. Levy in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III referred to above. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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