Delhi Persian 594 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Ẕikr-i jamīʻ-i awliyā-yi Dihlī by Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh Akbarābādī

Summary of Contents: Lives of the saints of Delhi composed, according to a chronogram, in 1140/1727-8, arranged according to the anniversaries of their death by Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Shaykh Jahān Akbarābādī Dihlavī (1671 or 2 - 1747).

Author: Ḥabīb Allāh, 1671 or 1672-1747 محمد حبیب الله

Title: Ẕikr-i jamīʿ-i awliyāʼ-i Dihlī

Title: ذکر جمیع اولیاء دهلی

Title: Ẕikr-i jamīʿ-i awliyā-yi Dihlī

Title: ذکر جمیع اولیای دهلی

Colophon: Copied for Qāz̤ī al-quz̤āt Vaḥīd al-Dīn Khān

Language(s): Persian

Filiation: Other copies in the British Library: Or. 1746, and Delhi Persian 634.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. iii+136

Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 170 mm.

Dimensions (written): 215 × 110 mm.

Foliation:

Pencilled foliation.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Fully repaired and rebound in 1970s.

Layout

16 lines per page.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Binding

Quarter-leather India Office Library binding stamped 1 June 1977.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 136v).

History

Origin: 18th century; CE

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, ff. 220-21. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact British Library, Registering for a Reader Pass. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see Finding and ordering Persian manuscripts in the British Library.

Surrogates

Microfilm IOL 356

Bibliography

For further information see C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, in Storey Online , vol.VI §1349.

Ḥabīb Allāh, 1671 or 1672-1747, Ẕikr-i jamīʿ-i awliyāʼ-i Dihlī; bih taṣḥīḥ va taʿlīqāt-i Sharīf Ḥusayn Qāsimī. Ṭūnk, Rājāsthān: ʿArabik ainḍ Parshiyan Rīsarch Insṭiṭiyūṭ, 1988.

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World