Delhi Persian 768 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 768a.

Select passages on clothing recommended for the ʿīdayn or feast days, with additional notes in margins on traditions relating to zakāt or alms, compiled by an unnamed author.

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Miscellaneous notes on litanies appropriate to particular days.

Delhi Persian 768b.

Untitled passages comprising the Arabic prayer Sayyid al-istighfār, miscellaneous notes on the senses and a recipe for constipation in a later hand.

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Delhi Persian 768c.

Roughly transcribed instructions for divination, followed by a note on the treatment of ātishak or syphilis.

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Delhi Persian 768d.

Defective excerpt from an untitled collection of morally instructive anecdotes of mystics, religious authorities, and kings, beginning with playfully allegorical-prose passages based on culinary ingredients and spices, by Muʿīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Kashfī Farāhī Hiravī (d. circa 907/1501).

The work incorporates letters from Shaykh Farīd Ganj Shakar, ʿAlī Akbar addressed to Shaykh Sharaf Manerī/Munyarī, ending with an incomplete fragment from a treatise by Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Delhi Persian 768e.

Devotional treatise on the manners and practices of the Prophet Muḥammad based on various unspecified authoritative collections of aḥādīs̲ or traditions, by an author who may be the same as the scribe (see colophon below).

Dated colophon (f. 10r): completed by the scribe named in a seal, Chayn Āvarī (Chenāvarī) Khān, Saturday afternoon, 20 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1171/2 December 1757.

Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Delhi Persian 768f.

Extract from an untitled devotional treatise on the Prophet Muḥammad’s origins in the divine light or nūr, by a certain ʿInāyat Allāh.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Annotations added to the vacant space below the text focus on litanies propitious for particular days of the week.

Delhi Persian 768g.

Untitled spiritual genealogy or nasab'nāmahfor Sayyid Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Mīr al-Qādirī [al-]Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynīas part of the QādirīyahSufi Order.

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Delhi Persian 768h.

Jurisprudential treatise based on prophetic traditions, supplying numerous extracts from collections of fatāvá or legal opinions, by Jān Muḥammad ibn Abū Saʿīd al-Anṣārī al-Barakī.

Dated colophon (f. 108r): completed by the scribe named in a seal, Chayn Āvarī (Chenāvarī) Khān, in the ṣūbah of Panj Āb (sic, read Punjab) under the rule of Ādīnah Bayg Khānduring the ‘muhimm-i Sikhān’(Sikh wars), afternoon of 19 Z̲ī Qaʿdah in RY 2 of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr II, 1169/15 August 1756.

Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Munājāt to the Prophet Muḥammad in the form of a ghazal by an unnamed poet, nastaʿlīq written in various orientations (f. 108v).

Delhi Persian 768i.

Brief essay on the subject of major sins, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768j.  

Treatise on conceptions of virtue, sin, and intermediate gradations, by ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Maḥmūd.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand.

Delhi Persian 768k.  

Untitled treatise on the founder of the NaqshbandīSufi Order, Khvājah Bahāʾ al-Dīn Bukhārī, known as the Naqshband, written by an unnamed author.

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Annotations in margins.

Delhi Persian 768l.  

Untitled treatise on the founder of the NaqshbandīSufi Order, Khvājah Bahāʾ al-Dīn Bukhārī, known as the Naqshband, written by an unnamed author.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand written in various oblique orientations.

Delhi Persian 768m.  

Untitled treatise on Islamic doctrine by Muḥammad Faz̤l Kābulī, resident of Ḥiṣār.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand written in various oblique orientations.

Delhi Persian 768n.

Untitled treatise enumerating seventy-thousand benefits of silence, by an unnamed author.

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Text concludes in the lower margin (f. 125v).

Delhi Persian 768o.

Untitled treatise abridging anecdotes on the customs of prophets and saints or the shamāʾil-i anbiyāʾ, compiled by an unnamed author.

Dated colophon (f. 173v): completed by the scribe named in a seal, Chayn Āvarī (Chenāvarī) Khān, in the country of Santok Sing[h]of the principality of Sībah (Siba State, Himachal Pradesh), a the time Aḥmad Shāh Abdālīdeparted for and conquered the throne of Jahānābād (Shāhjahānābād), Thursday, 16 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1170/8 January 1757.

Appended in vacant spaces following the colophon (f. 174) is a prayer by a later owner for divines and rulers of Arabia, Persia, Africa, Khurasan, Sindh, India, Tibet, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Ghur, Central Asia, land and ocean.

Delhi Persian 768p.

Treatise on aspects of religion by an unnamed author.

Dated colophon (f. 184v): completed by the scribe named in a seal, Chayn Āvarī (Chenāvarī) Khān, at the mouth of the lake of Jag Guru, after its conquest, Sunday afternoon, 9 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1169/4 September 1756.

Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Delhi Persian 768q.

Treatise describing the teachings and final wishes of Khvājah ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghijduvānī, the Sufi master to the founder of the Naqshbandīyahorder, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768r.

Treatise comprising an unattributed will and testament, with every clause invoking ʿAlī [ibn Abū Ṭālib], written by an unnamed author.

Dated colophon (f. 188v): completed noon, Thursday, 7 Jumādá al-S̲ānī 1171/16 February 1758.

Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Delhi Persian 768s.

Untitled treatise on brief moral dicta and benedictions, by an unnamed author.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand with occasional shikastah flourishes.

Delhi Persian 768t.

Untitled treatise relating an exchange between Nūshīrvānand his minister Būzurjmihrregarding Arisṭāṭālīsor Aristotle, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768u.

Untitled divine litany or the asmāʾ al-ḥusnáprefaced with a note on its recitation, by an unnamed compiler.

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Note in the margin (f. 192v), severely cropped, refers to Fidavī Khān and ʿAlāʾ Uddīn (sic) Muḥammad Shāh as dear brothers, written in a naïve hand with phonetic spelling.

Delhi Persian 768v.

Arabic panegyric praising the Prophet Muḥammad, in ghazal form, attributed in the title to Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī.

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Neat nastaʿlīq hand.

Delhi Persian 768w.

Untitled treatise instructing on prayers recited at the beginning of every new moon, by an unnamed author.

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Neat nastaʿlīq and ornamental naskh hands.

Delhi Persian 768x.

Untitled group of two magic squares (5 x 5 and 4 x 4) with esoteric glyphs, introduced by a note on its benefits.

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Delhi Persian 768y.

Untitled treatise on the importance of fasting on the day of ʿāshūrāʾ, monthly observances, prayers, and magic squares (continued in margins), by an unnamed author.

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Note at the end (f. 215v), refers to the farzand Fayz̤ Khān Muḥammad Shāh, written in a naïve hand with phonetic spelling.

Delhi Persian 768z.

Treatise on prayers and magical prescriptions by an unnamed author.

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The text continues in margins.

Note at the end gives the recipe for an aromatic confection ascribed to Mīrzā Rajab ʿAlī Bayg.

Delhi Persian 768aa.

Untitled brief excerpt on ritual prayers from a text entitled Miftāḥ al-jinān, which may be attributable to Muḥammad Mujīr Vajīh Adīb, a disciple of the Sufi, Shaykh Nayyir al-Dīn of Delhi(d. 757/1356-7).

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Delhi Persian 768ab.

Collection of religious poems comprising a ghazal (twenty-one verses) invoking the aid of Muṣṭafá, the Prophet Muḥammad, followed by a mnemonic poem on ceremonies commemorating the khvājah or spiritual leader.

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Added in the margin by a later hand is a brief prayer recommended for recitation after every ritual prayer.

Delhi Persian 768ac.

Arabic prayer evoking Iblīs or Satan.

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Delhi Persian 768ad.

Arabic prayers prefaced with brief instructions in Persian.

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Note appended at the end in a relatively modern hand including Urdu vocabulary listing ingredients for a dye or khiz̤āb.

Delhi Persian 768ae.

Fragment from a treatise on the Arabic prayers and utterances of Sufis, by an unnamed author.

Defective at end.

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Delhi Persian 768af.

Untitled metaphysical treatise in prose and verse on methods for discovering hidden beings and geomancy, concluding with an Arabic prayer, mnemonic poems, and a diagram, based on the writings of the Sufi master Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʿArabī, by an unnamed author.

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Nastaʿlīq, with neat naskh for Arabic passages, extending into margins.

Delhi Persian 768ag.

Untitled metaphysical treatise on methods for scapulimancy or divination based on the scapulae of sheep, as well as times and dates appropriate for marriage, by an unnamed author.

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Tables.

Delhi Persian 768ah.

Fragment of an untitled collection of poems in ghazal form on the subject of important dates according to the zodiac and Rūmī or Syriac calendar, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768ai.

Untitled collection of notes on numerological talismans protecting against the disease of chīchak or smallpox and other ailments, one of which is based on Sūrat al-Fātiḥah( al-Qurʾān: I) and other verses, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768 aj.

Verses in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768ak.

Treatise commenting on chapters and verses of the Qurʾān, especially sūrahs Muzammil(LXXIII) and Yā-Sīn(XXXVI), by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768al.

Untitled collection of eulogistic poems praising the Prophet Muḥammadand early Sufi masters, compiled by an unnamed writer.

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Delhi Persian 768am.

Untitled collection of notes on numerological talismans and other formulae protecting against various diseases and creatures, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768an.

Untitled Arabic prayer, followed by annotations on magic and spagiric medicine, the latter in a modern hand.

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Delhi Persian 768ao.

Untitled occultist treatise on methods for protection against the evils of daemons, sprites, and magicians, referencing the transactions of the Prophet Sulaymānor Solomonwith his ministers and subservient spirits, as well as his seal, compiled by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768ap.

Untitled Arabic prayer protecting against the evil of Satan, followed by a numerological talisman in the form of an abstracted skeletal being.

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Delhi Persian 768aq.

Untitled occultist notes on Arabic and esoteric formulae protecting against the evils of daemons hidden in bricks and stones, followed by a numerological talisman in the form of an abstracted skeletal being, compiled by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768ar.

Untitled Arabic prayer recommended in accompanying Persian notes for recitation in the middle of ritual prayers, by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768as.

Untitled notes on the recipes treating the cold, influenza, fever, and prickly heat, by an unnamed author.

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Annotations inserted in vacant spaces gives the recipe for an aromatic confection ascribed to Mīrzā Rajab ʿAlī Bayg.

Loose slip inserted between folios 242-3 reproduces another numerological talisman in the form of an abstracted skeletal being.

Delhi Persian 768at.

Untitled annotations on various complaints relating to pregnancy, labour, and easing delivery, with Arabic prayers, compiled by an unnamed author.

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Delhi Persian 768au.

Untitled veterinary treatise on the use of Arabic talismans for the treatment of horses, some citing traditions of the Prophet Muḥammad, concluding with pharmacological recipes, written by an unnamed author.

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Additional annotations in margins.

Numerological diagrams.

Delhi Persian 768av.

Untitled annotations on various embrocations and ointments, followed by a treatment for ātishak or syphilis, by an unnamed author.

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