Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1123 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Sayr'nāmah by Sayyid Maḥmūd Bangālī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Account of the four-decade-long travels in the Middle East of the Ṣūfī saint, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht(d. 785/1384), compiled under his supervision by his disciple, Sayyid Maḥmūd Bangālī.

Not dated at end. Datable to the late seventeenth century.

Nastaʿlīq.

Dense annotations in margins at the beginning.

Pencil, Persian and raqm foliations.

Lacking original binding.

Presently in damaged binding with detached spine, boards (faded polychrome decorated papers on boards edged with reddish brown leather); labels.

Wormholes, later repairs and applied patches.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 47 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 176 × 110 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1650 - 1699 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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