Delhi Persian 1206B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Lata’if al-tava’if by Safi
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1 copy of Rashaḥāt ʿayn al-ḥayāt by ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī Ṣafī
Collection of Sufi, religious, historical and morally edifying anecdotes and tales by the Timurid litterateur and author of the Rashaḥāt ʿayn al-ḥayāt, Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Vāʿiẓ al-Kāshifī, known as Ṣafī (d. 939/1532).
Written after a year-long siege of Hirāt (Herat) in praise of a Naṣīr al-Dīn Ẓahīr al-Millah Shāh Muḥammad Sulṭān, and in a simple prose style with poetry for the delight of his élite and common contemporaries.
The work comprises fourteen chapters termed bāb.
Dated colophon (f. 205r): completed by Ḥabīb Allāh in the house of Fayyāz̤ Khān for Lālah Dhavār (?) Singh, on Sunday, 22 Ramaz̤ān in RY 18 of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 114[9]/24 January 1737.
Rough scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz by multiple hands.
Stamped and pencil foliation.
Lacking original binding.
Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Regulation II for 1819); torn and stained.
Folios unbound, cropped; stains, wormholes, later repairs along gutter.
Condition fragile.
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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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