Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1257 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

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1 copy of Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqat by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ʿAbbāsī Gujarātī

Language(s): Persian, Arabic

Substantive fragment from a scholarly copy of a lengthy critical commentary correcting errors in older manuscripts of the famous Sufi treatise, Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqat of Ḥakīm Sanāʾī Ghaznavī (d. 1150), by the Timurid scholar and historian, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbbāsī Gujarātī the munshīʾ, later entitled Dayānat Khān (d. circa 1049/1639), who dedicated the text to the Timurid Emperor Shāh Jahān I.

The treatise was completed in 1042/1632-3 with the help of Mīr ʿImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd takhalluṣ Ilāhī.

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

Fluid scholarly shikastah āmīz.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 175 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 185 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: Mid-17th century India

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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