Delhi Persian 1078 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1078 a.

Treatise on mystical philosophy by an unnamed author.

The chronogrammatic title is mentioned in a concluding verse.

Defective at beginning (starts at folio 25, showing substantial loss).

Not dated at end; datable to the late seventeenth century.

Delhi Persian 1078 b.

Untitled Persian commentary by the celebrated mystic and poet Jāmī on the Qaṣīdah-yi mīmīyah-yi khumrīyah-yi Fāriẓīyah by the Egyptian mystical poet, Ibn Fāriẓ, that is, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī (d. 632/1235).

The work has been endorsed by a later hand under the conventional title Lavāmiʿ, plural of lāmiʿah, the term used to introduce each new point of analysis.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 1078 c.

Ṣūfī speculative treatise, entitled Jām-i jahān numā, classifying the types and registers of creation, their corresponding phenomenological reality, and encounters with the divine. Authorship has traditionally been attributed to either Muḥammad Shīrīn Maghribī (d, 809/1406-7) or Mīr Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Manṣūr Shīrāzī (d. 948/1541).

Defective at end.

Not dated at end.

Diagrams (ff. 65v, 68v-69r).