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
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.
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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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