Delhi Persian 998 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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1 copy of Khizānat al-farāʻid al-Jalālīyah by Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī
Khizānat al-farāʻid al-Jalālīyah (جلال الدین حسین ابن احمد البخاری, discourses on Islamic theology and law by Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī al-Bukhārī (d.785/1385), as recorded by his disciple Bahāʼ al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Ḥusayn. The first discourse was completed on 5 Rabiʻ II 752 (1351).
On f. 86v, there begins an account of the benefits of pilgrimages with a diagram (f. 88v) containing measurements of the places of pilgrimage at Mecca.
An added note claims that the work was copied for the Emperor Aurangzeb.
21 lines per page; nastaʻlīq; copyist, Ḥasan ibn Sulayman ibn ʻUsmānat Gujarat; rubrications; diagram on f. 88v
Dated 5 Zū al-Ḥijjah 1055 (22 Jan 1646).
See IO Islamic 577 (Ethe 2561) for another copy.
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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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