Delhi Persian 1077 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ by Jāmī, 1414-1492

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

A commentary on Ibn al-‘Arabī’s (560-638/1165-1240) Arabic work entitled Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, itself an abridgement of his Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.

10 lines to a page; cursive nastaʻliq; rubrications; many marginal notes; badly worm-eaten; copyist, Ghulām Muḥammad Nūr Muḥammad; dated 1 Ramazan 1057 (30 September 1647).

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامي

Title: Naqd al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ

Title: نقد النصوص فی شرح نقش الفصوص

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. i+189

Dimensions (leaf): 232 × 133 mm.

Hand(s)

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

IOL half-leather scarlet, 22 Aug. 1916.

Seal(s):

Illegible oval seal dated 1134 (1721/2.

History

Origin: 1 Ramazan 1057 (30 September 1647 AH ; India?

Provenance and Acquisition

Former owner’s inscription on f. 1r dated Muharram 1139 (Aug/Sep 1726).

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 description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/1_f035r, f. 35r.

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