Delhi Persian 584B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Taz̤kirat al-awliyāʼ, biographies of sufi saints by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230. عطار، فريد الدين محمد بن ابراهيم

Title: Taz̤kirat al-awliyāʼ

Title: تذكرة الاولياء

Colophon: Completed on 28 Shavval 1244 (3 March 1829).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. i+346+i

Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 168 mm.

Foliation:

Persian foliation in red.

Collation

Catchwords throughout on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Poor condition; 18th or 19th century marginal repairs; detached binding.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings, Arabic quotations and overlinings in red.

Decoration

Double-ruled red text frame.

Additions:

Marginal glosses.

Binding

Red leather binding with floriate design embossed paper central medallion, pendants, corners and outer band with gold ruled frame.

Seal(s):

Oval seal of former owner (f. 1r): Saʻīd Allāh, with his inscription. 9 × 13 mm. Black Government of India Delhi MSS stamp (ff. 1r, 346v).

History

Origin: India; 28 Shavval 1244 AH (3 March 1829).

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on C.A. Storey's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library vol III: Mss Eur 207/9, f. 102r. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World