Delhi Persian 906A (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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1 copy of Baḥr-i saʿādat by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kāzarūnī
Hagiographic treatise, entitled Baḥr-i saʿādat, on the traditions, character and manners of the Prophet Muḥammad, based on and condensing evidence from the authorities Anas ibn Mālik, Imām Aḥmad [ibn Ḥanbal], and [Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn] Bayhaqī, written by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-mulaqqab bah Ḥājī Tāj al-Dīn Harrās al-Kāzarūnī, the latter may be the same as the founder of the Kāzarūnī Sufi Order, Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Shahriyār Kāzarūnī(d. 426/1033).
The treatise is divided into twelve chapters.
Dated colophon (f. 379r): completed by Kamāl ibn Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Tāj al-Dīn al-Bāghnavī, Wednesday, [29] Shavvāl 900/1 August 1495.
Timurid rounded naskh hands by several hands, using archaic orthography.
Annotations and corrections in margins.
Foliation in pencil and original Persian.
Folios rebound in IOL red half leather covers (stamp dated 29 August 1922); light water stains, cropped, wormholes, severely deteriorating modern tissue repairs.
Condition relatively fair.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
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