Delhi Persian 1067 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Two treatises on Sufism by Kalim Allah
Contents
A Persian translation and commentary on al-Taswīyah of Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī, ascribed to Kalīm Allāh ibn Sibghat Allāh.
References
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.
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Physical Description
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.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 57v, 58r, 105v).
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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