Delhi Persian 996 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
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1 copy of Mawāhib al-raḥmān by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Qādirī
Khizānah-'i Qādirīyah (خزانهٔ قادریه), an interlinear translation with the Arabic original, entitled Mawāhib al-raḥmān(مواحب الرحمان), attributed to ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 1166), by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Qādirī who wrote it after being introduced into the Qadiri order by his Shaykh, Shihāb al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd al-Jalīl al-Ghiyāsī al-Qādirī al-Aḥmadābādī.
24 lines to a page; elegant naskhi and clear nastaʻliq; rubrications; Arabic text in black on yellow, Persian version in red ink on a white background; some marginal notes; decorated ʻunvān on f. 1v; margins ruled in gold, black, red and blue.
Copied in Kashmir, 1229 (1814).
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.
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