Delhi Persian 87A* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: Fragment from an unidentified hagiographic account focused on Chishtī saints during the reign of Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq (d. 752/1351).

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Fragment from an unidentified hagiographic account focused on Chishtī saints during the reign of Sulṭān Abū al-Mujāhid Muḥammad ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Tughluq (d. 752/1351).

Defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the late fifteenth century.

Not foliated.

Neat scribal naskh, occasionally integrating Bihari flourishes.

Sporadic annotations and corrections in margins.

Folios bound; creased, stained, cropped.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 54 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 174 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 16th 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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