Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 575 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

On ritual prayer and pious verses

Contents

An unidentified work dealing with the ritual of prayer and pious verses for various occasions throughout the Islamic year

Crossed out title on fly-leaf Akhbār al-akhyār on the fly-leaf.

Lacks beginning and final leaves.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 104 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 124 mm.
Dimensions (written):
Foliation:

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Layout

11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Good nastaʻliq; black ink with headings in red.

Additions:

Binding

Bound in flimsy paper with cloth spine.

History

Origin: 18th century CE. ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Former owner named on fly-leaf as Muḥammad Ṣadīq father (vālid) of Shāh Muḥammad Ḥusayn

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 E207/28, f.39r. Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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Funding of Cataloguing

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