Delhi Persian 1099 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Chishtī Ṣūfī hagiography of the eminent Indian saint, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Quddūs Ḥanafī al-Chishtī(d. 944/1537) of Gangoh( Saharanpur), written by [Shaykh] Rukn al-Dīn Miskīn(d. 983/1575), apparently the son of the saint, who persistently refers in Arabic to the saint as ‘shaykhī va vālidī’.

The work additionally contains a wealth of information and observations on social life and politics during the transition between the last of the Lodi dynastyand the Timurid Emperor Bābur(d. 936/1530).

Defective at end.

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

Note (f. 55A) inserted between ff. 55-56, with Arabic phrases from ritual prayers, and on the verso ingredients for food.

Nastaʿlīq tending to shikastah written tightly, with awkward naskh for Arabic passages.

Annotations in margins in a neat nastaʿlīq hand within ruled frames.

Catchwords cropped.

Stamped foliation. Persian foliation on the verso of folios.

IOL red half-leather binding; lacking date stamp.

Folios remounted and rebound, margins torn or cropped; wormholes; gauze overlay throughout.

Ownership marks and seal at beginning.