Delhi Persian 1102 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
2 miscellaneous Sufi works (a-b)
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A volume containing two works. Unbound and wrapped in a printed sheet of 1793 regulations containing former shelf marks.
Delhi Persian 1102a.
The well-known Sufi compendium Lavāʼiḥ (لوائح) by Jāmī.
13 lines to a page; shikastah; worm-eaten and water-stained; 18th century.
Delhi Persian 1102b.
A short divan consisting of ghazals ascribed in the colophon to ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, d. 1166.
17 lines per page, written at varying angles; nim-shikastah; copied at Delhi, 17 Zu'l-Qaʻdah 1189, regnal year 17 [of Shah 'Alam II] (9 Jan 1776).
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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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