Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 632C (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Jaz̲b al-qulūb ilá diyār al-Maḥbūb by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Treatise on the historical significance, pilgrimage rituals and prayers associated with the monuments of the Arabian city of Madīnah, with particular reference to the cemetery Jannat al-Baqīʿ, adjacent to the Masjid al-Nabavī, written by the eminent Indian scholar and muḥaddis̲, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Turk Dihlavī Bukhārī (d. 1052/1642).

This copy is defective at the beginning.

Not dated at end.

Nastaʿlīq.

Annotations.

Foliation in Persian.

Original covers lost.

Folios unbound; cropped, water and fungal stains, creased.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 253 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 267 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: Second half of the 18th 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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