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1 copy of Daqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq by Aḥmad Rūmī, active 14th century

Language(s): Persian

Daqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq (دقائق الحقائق), a treatise of Sufi doctrine based on the writings of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, by his pupil Aḥmad Rūmī (fl.c. 700/1299).

For a detailed account of this work see Rieu p.396 (where it is erroneously entitled Ḥaqāʼiq al-daqāʼiq).

17 lines per page; cursive nastaʻlīq; copyist Ghulām Anvar ibn Saʻādat Allāh ; many marginal repairs; water-stained; copy dated 1213/1798-9.

Author: Aḥmad Rūmī, active 14th century احمد رومی
Title: Daqāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq
Title: دقائق الحقائق

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. i+213+ii
Dimensions (leaf): 253 × 164 mm.

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Leather spine and edges around plain boards

History

Origin: 1213 (1798/9) AH ; India?

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 in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/1_f057r, f. 57r

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