Delhi Persian 1329 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1329a.

Dīvān containing the collected lyrics or ghazals in alphabetical order ascribed to the great saint of the Qādirīyah Sufi school, Sayyid Abū Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166), with the takhalluṣ Muḥyī.

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Delhi Persian 1329b.

Untitled qaṣīdah or eulogy in praise of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166), detailing his genealogy as a Ḥasanī and Ḥusaynī ʿAlavī sayyid as well as his virtues, by the Chishtī saint Khvājah Quṭb al-Dīn Kākī Bakhtiyār Ūshī (d. 634/1236).

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Delhi Persian 1329c.

Fragment from a larger treatise selecting excerpts from the Mas̲navī-'i maʿnavī by "Rūmī" Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn Valad Balkhī (d. 670/1271), organised into sixty-three chapters or bāb based on specific Sufi themes, compiled by Abū Bakr al-Shāshī.

The compiler wrote his treatise under the inspiration of Rūmī’s visitation in a dream, according to a brief opening statement introducing the contents.

There are several lacunae in this copy, with only chapters 1-3, (4 missing), 5, 17 represented here.

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Delhi Persian 1329d.

Fragment from a larger untitled selection of lyrics or ghazalīyāt, ending in the letter alif (a), by Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, takhalluṣ Ḥāfiẓ, also known by the later honorific Lisān al-ghayb (d. 792/1389).

The selection is defective at the end.

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Delhi Persian 1329e.

Miscellaneous annotations comprised of poetic compositions in mixed genres and forms (ghazal, qiṭʿah, fard, rubāʿī) by numerous authors, with several notable Persian and Urdu qaṣāʾid termed munājāt in praise of the great saint of the Qādirīyah Sufi school, Sayyid Abū Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166), known as the Ghaws̲-i Aʿẓam, possibly by the Suhravardī Sufi saint, Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyā Multānī (d. 661/1262), and Amān Allāh (?), as well as the separate compositions of Princess Zīb al-Nisāʾ Baygum bint [Emperor] ʿĀlamgīr I takhalluṣ Makhfī (d. 1113/1702), and Abū al-Fatḥ Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nayshāpūrī takhalluṣ Khayyām (d. 516/1122), better known as ʿUmar Khayyām.

The selection concludes with several recipes for food and medicines.

Multicolumnar arrangement of text, in alternating (usually diagonal) orientations.

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