Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1568* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

Summary of Contents: Untitled and unidentified fragment of treatise on jurisprudential interpretations of the science of astrology and astronomy, by an unnamed author.
Language(s): Persian, Arabic

Untitled and unidentified fragment of treatise on jurisprudential interpretations of the science of astrology and astronomy, by an unnamed author.

The fragment ends without conclusion, but a later owner has added annotations as if the abrupt end of the text is the formal conclusion with the addition of the words tamm repeated.

The fragment comprises twenty-six chapters, termed bāb, although it begins in the midst of the second bāb.

Not dated at end.

Tight scribal nastaʿlīq.

Corrections and annotations in margins.

Folios unbound; stains, cropped, wormholes, torn and creased.

Fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 95 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 125 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 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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