Delhi Persian 122 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Miscellaneous works on ritual prayer, 2 items (a-b)
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Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Delhi Persian 122 a.
Compendious treatise on the ritual prayers and other religious duties by Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī or Qarshī.
Arabic and Qur’anic quotations overlined; headings in red.
Not dated at end. Datable to the sixteenth century.
Although cropped, folio 82 retains its original dimension along the lower edge.
Delhi Persian 122 b.
Untitled selection of two separate chronogrammatic qiṭaʿāt encoding the ʿurs or date of death (in 1012/1603) for the Naqshbandī Sufi saint, Khvājah Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh Dihlavī.
Not dated at end. Datable to the eighteenth century.
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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
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