Delhi Persian 86* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Summary of Contents: Untitled polemic treatise on describing and confuting the Imāmī and Ismāʿīlī branches of Shīʿī doctrine from a Sunnī perspective, by an unidentified author.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Untitled polemic treatise on describing and confuting the Imāmī and Ismāʿīlī branches of Shīʿī doctrine from a Sunnī perspective, by an unidentified author.

Defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end.

Partially foliated.

Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on legislation for 1852); watermarked (lion rampant guardant holding sceptre in crowned oval frame; not dated); label, creased and stained.

Folios detached; large wormholes.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 38 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 153 mm.

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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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