Delhi Persian 1094 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Kashkūl by Kalīm Allah

Summary of Contents: A general work on the principles of Sufi teaching and practice, started (f. 2r) on 1 Zu 'l-Qaʻdah 1101 (6 August 1690) by Kalīm Allāh of the Chishtī sect. The work contains a preface, 2 sections (vaṣl) and a conclusion.

Author: Kalīm Allah کلیم الله

Title: Kashkūl

Title: کشکول

Incipit: الحمد لله به علیه و الصلوة من لدیه الیه. اما بعد کشکولی که لقماتش لطیفه زبانی را قوت بخشد و الخ.

Explicit: و اگر اشاره میشود از ذکر آن چاره نیست.

Colophon: به فضلش اتمام یافت ۲۴ ذیحجه سنه ۱۱۴۶ به خط احقر العباد عبدلرحیم روز پنجشنبه

Colophon: Copy completed by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm on Thursday 24 ̲Zī-Ḥijjah 1146 (28 March 1734). The scribe may possibly be the same scribe who copied Delhi Persian 1179 at Shahjahanabad between 1734 and 1739.

The author is most probably to be identified with Kalīm Allāh ibn Sibghat Allāh, the author of Delhi Persian 1067a.

The title is given incorrectly on the flyleaf as Kanz al-ʻirfān.

Language(s): Persian

Filiation: For another copy in the British Library see Delhi Persian 1067b.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. iv+44+iv

Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 100 mm.

Dimensions (written): 150 × 70 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation. Some folios are numbered in Persian, but the numbers do not correspond.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Extremely worm-eaten; damp-stained; loose leaves and detached binding.

Layout

17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Some marginal additions and corrections.

Folio 44v is covered with unrelated verses.

Binding

Leather binding with embossed paper central medallion, 4 corners, and 2 pendants; ruled outer frame

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 43v).

History

Origin: 24 Ẕī-Ḥijjah 1146 AH (28 March 1734). India

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 in1876

Record Sources

Based on A.J. Arberry's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/3, f. 83 and R. Levy's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III,Mss Eur E207/13, f. 13r. Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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