Delhi Persian 1293A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1293Aa.

Incomplete list of contents (see item b) by an unnamed compiler, reproducing either the titles, first words or the whole first miṣraʿ or verse from the qaṣāʾid or eulogies of ʿUrfī Shīrāzī(d. 999/1591).

Defective at beginning.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 1293Ab.

Untitled collection of the qaṣāʾid or eulogies of the poet, Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Shīrāzī, with the takhalluṣ ʿUrfī (d. 999/1591), patronised at the court of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperor Akbar I (d. 1114/1605).

Heavily annotated in margins and interlinear spaces by later hands.

Not dated at end.

This work is followed on folio 126 by recipes for food and medical treatments.

Delhi Persian 1293Ac.

Sufi mas̲navī ascribed to Mawlavī Sayyid ʿAbd al-Jalīl Bilgrāmī.

Dated colophon (f. 146r): completed Saturday, [2] Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1215/23 August 1800.

Text arranged in five columns of alternating orientations.

Persian foliation in red ink.

Delhi Persian 1293Ad.

Untitled collection of naʿt of the Prophet Muḥammad, manqabat poems in mixed genres praising the imam and caliph ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib, his wife Fāṭimah, the second imam Ḥasan, the third imam Ḥusayn, the fourth imam Bāqir Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, the sixth imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, and the eighth imam Mūsá al-Riz̤āʾ, by Sayyid Bandah ʿAlī Qādirī, with the takhalluṣ Bāsiṭī.

The scribe has irregularly added text in margins, along with corrections, and collation marks.

Not dated at end.

The collection is followed by notes on genealogy and miscellaneous verses (f. 161v); followed by a ghazal and qiṭʿah in Urdu (f. 162r).