Delhi Persian 1566* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Early copy in the ‘Sultanate’ style of the treatise on Sufi doctrines in refined prose and verse by Rukn al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʿĀlim ibn Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī Gūrī Hiravī known as Mīr Fakhr al-Sādāt (d. 729/1329), completed 711/1311-2.

The work is divided into twenty-eight chapters termed faṣl, with an introduction and conclusion.

Dated colophon (f. 109v): completed by Aḥmad ibn … (?) al-Ḥusaynī, 945/1538. Followed by an audition note indicating the copy was checked before the colophon date: midday, Thursday, Jumādá al-avval 944/October 1537.

Taʿlīq in the style of the Indian Sultanate frequently termed bihārī.

Extensive contemporary notes at the beginning (ff. 1r-2r) on the poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Masʿūd Bak, Khvājah Kamāl [Khujandī], Shaykh Nāṣir Bakhtiyārī, with two separate Hindavī verses scrawled in margins.

Extensive contemporary and later annotations on margins.

Lacking covers.

Folios unbound; occasional wormholes, torn, creased, stained, cropped.

Condition fragile.