Delhi Persian 997 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

1 copy of Mawāhib al-raḥmān by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Qādirī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Khizānah-'i Qādirīyah, a interlinear translation entitled Mawāhib al-raḥmān(مواحب الرحمان), attributed to ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 1166), by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Qādirī.

End defective; 19 lines to a page; good naskhī, alternating with good taʻlīq.

17th century.

Author: Muḥammad Ṣādiq Qādirī محمد صادق قادری

Title: Khizānah-'i Qādirīyah

Title: خزانهٔ قادریه

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. iii+516+i

Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 175 mm.

Hand(s)

Decoration

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Binding

Detached leather binding, worm-eaten and mottled though damp

History

Origin: 17th century

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 E207/11_f056r, f. 56r

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World