Delhi Persian 31 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Vasīlat al-qabūl ilá Ḥaz̤rat al-Rasūl by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Naṣr Allāh ʻAlavī

Author: ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Naṣr Allāh ʻAlavī عبد الرحیم بن نصر الله علوی

Title: Vasīlat al-qabūl ilá Ḥaz̤rat al-Rasūl

A copious Persian commentary on the Istiʻādhah , the Basmalah, and the first Sūrah of the Qurʼān

The work is divided into a large number of sections, and the present manuscript breaks off before the conclusion of the ninety-second

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Persian III, .

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 222 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 11 in.

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Small fairly clear but inelegant nastaʼlīq

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Binding

half leather European 20th century binding, with tooled decorations from earlier binding preserved on ff 1Br and 1Fr

History

Origin: India; 18th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Arberry, Levy and Storey: Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 3. (Unpublished)

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World