Delhi Persian 96* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 96* a.

Fragment of an unidentified treatise on traditions relating to the Prophet Muḥammad.

The work is divided into at least ten bāb, of which only fragments of chapters nine and ten are present here.

The work is substantially defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 92* b.

Fragment from a brouillon of an unidentified treatise on Shīʿī doctrines and prayers, by an unnamed author.

The hands and treatments of the text fluctuate throughout, beginning neatly in nastaʿlīq and naskh and thereafter declining in quality, rather emphatically in places.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 96* c.

Untitled treatise on the ʿaqīqah ceremony of animal slaughter on the occasion of shaving the hair of a newly-born child.

Not dated at end.

The work is preceded by a fragment (f. 48r) from the concluding section of a medical treatise ending with a prayer.

Delhi Persian 96* d.

Miscellaneous medical treatments, written in alternating orientations, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 96* e.

Account of the creation and fall from divine grace of the angel ʿAzāzīl, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Delhi Persian 96* f.

Untitled Arabic prayers for days of the week, informally identified at the end as Usbūʿ-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Ghaws̲-i Aʿẓam.

Persian names for days of the week are specified in margins by a different hand.

Not dated at end.

Bold naskh.