Delhi Persian 694 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Substantial fragment from the mystical treatise collecting biographical anecdotes and maxims from the life of the Sufi poet and saint Jalāl al-Dīn al-Balkhī Rūmī (d. 672/1273), compiled by his son Sulṭān Valad or Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 712/1312).

The work is divided into seventy-two discourses.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end. Datable to the late seventeenth century.

Shikastah āmīz.

Not foliated.

Lacking original binding.

Binding damaged (combed marble paper with brown leather edging over delaminating pasteboards), labels.