Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 80* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous works on pilgrimage and prayer, 3 items (a-c)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of miscellaneous works on Arabic prayers for pilgrimage and other Islamic rites. Volume not dated; datable to late eighteenth century. Scribal naskh. Annotations in margins. Discontinuous Persian foliation. Lacking original binding. Plain Manila paper wrapper. Folios mostly bound; wormholes, cropped, water stains, some smudging.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-54v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 80* a.

Abridged version extracting mainly the Arabic prayers from a treatise on pilgrimage rituals and prayers associated with the monuments of the Arabian city of Madīnah, written by the eminent Indian scholar and muḥaddis̲, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Turk Dihlavī Bukhārī (d. 1052/1642).

Not dated at end.

2. ff. 55r-62r

Delhi Persian 80* b.

Untitled treatise on Arabic prayers and eulogies in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad based on ḥadīs̲ sources, by Ibrāhīm ibn Dāʾūd al-Vāṣilī.

Not dated at end.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 62v-65r
Author:

Delhi Persian 80* c.

Untitled collection of miscellaneous Arabic prayers briefly introduced with notes in Persian, compiled by an unnamed editor.

Not dated at end.

Annotations on ritual prayers.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 65 ff. (+1)
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1750 - 1799 CE ; 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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Funding of Cataloguing

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