Delhi Persian 988 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Ḥāshīyah-'i Kashf al-maḥjūb by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Lārī, -1506

Language(s): Persian

Notes on selected passages of the Kashf al-maḥjūb(کشف المحجوب) by ʻAlī ibn ʻUsmān Hujvīrī. The author, ʻAbd al-Ghafūr, is presumably to be identified with the well-known Naqshbandi author ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Raz̤ī al-Dīn Lārī (d. 956/1506-7).

15 lines per page; nastaʻliq; copyist, Muḥibb ʻAlī ibn Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn; rubrications; many marginal notes; worm-eaten and water-stained.

Dated 15 Jumādá II 1088 (15 Aug 1677).

Author: ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Lārī, -1506 لارى، عبد الغفور

Title: Hāshiyah-'i Kashf al-maḥjūb

Title: حاشیهٔ کشف المحجوب

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff.iii+43+ii

Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 120 mm.

Condition

Hand(s)

Decoration

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Binding

Red half-leather India Office binding, 23 Feb 2015.

History

Origin: 15_Jumada_II_1088 AH; 15 August 1677 CE ;

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

Record Sources

Based on description by A.J. Arberry in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/1_f006r, f. 6r.

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