Delhi Persian 1115 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous collection on Sufism, 2 items (a-b)
Contents
Selected excerpt from a larger unidentified collection of official correspondence, beginning (on folio 1Br) maktūb-i shaṣt va hashtum, on the subject of the pillar of light in the period of the twelfth imām, by an unnamed author.
Folio 1Av contains ten gridded vifq al-aʿdād or magical squares.
Undated at end.
Incomplete Sufi treatise on the philosophy and transmission of knowledge according to Islamic sources and doctrine by Muḥammad ibn ʿImād Sanjānī, who travelled from the Jazīrah(Iraq) to Hindūstān(northern India), and thence to Rūm(Anatolia), completing the work in 770/1368-9.
Dated colophon (f. 190r): first half (niṣf-i avval) completed by Rawshan ʿAlī Multānī and the second half (niṣf-i ākhar) by Nūr Muḥammad Multānī for Muḥammad ʿAẓmat Afghān Yūsufzay, in qaṣbah Shūrkūt( Shorkot, Jhang District, Punjab), 1116/1704.
The paper on folios 152-175 is tinted pale orange.
Nastaʿlīq, with naskh for Arabic.
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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
Record Sources
Record subsequently augmented and enhanced in consultation with Omid Bakhtiari Sangani.
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