Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1075 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Untitled Sufi treatise on divinity

Contents

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Untitled Sufi treatise commenting on the philosophical and doctrinal nature of the vājib al-vujūd or divinity based on copious quotations from unidentified Arabic sources, by an unidentified author.

Overlined Arabic quotations are introduced with the phrase qawluhu.

Defective at both ends.

Not dated at end. Datable to the early eighteenth century.  

Transcribed by several hands in various forms of scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz, excepting scribal naskh for Arabic, transcribed diagonally after folio 348.

Annotations in margins.

Persian foliation on verso of almost every folio.

Lacking original binding.

Fragmentary paper dust wrapper.

Folios unbound, cropped, stained and torn; later repairs; wormholes.

Fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 345 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 145 in.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700 - 1750 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

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Funding of Cataloguing

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