Delhi Persian 1128 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Maktūbāt-i ʻAbd al-Bāqī

Summary of Contents: A collection of letters written by the Naqshbandī saint, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Bāqī Billāh, completed in Ṣafar 1008 AH/1599 CE.

Author: Khvājah ʻAbd al-Bāqī خواجه عبد الباقی

Title: Maktūbāt | Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Bāqī Billāh | Ṣafar 1008 AH

Title: Maktūbāt

Title: مکتوبات

Incipit: ارتباط این بی حاصل از حیث مصافحه و تعلم ذکر و مراقبه سلسله نقشبندیه قدس الله تعالی ارواحهم به خدمت علیه و ذو البصیرة و البصارت منبع الحضور و مرجع الصدور المنتهی بالصراط المستقیم و المنزل فی العظیم مولانا خواجگی علیه الرحمة والخ.

Explicit: و درین هنگام حالتی روی نماید که گاه اسم را بی مسمی یابد و گاه مسمی را بی اسم بیند و گاه نه اسم ماند و نه مسمی بلک الان کماکان جلوه گر گردد اللهم ارزقنی... و دفع الفراغ من جمع هذه الفواید و نظم هذه الفراید یوم الخمیس حادی عشر شهر صفر... سنه ثمان و الف هجره علی صاحبها الف الف تحیة و الخ.

Colophon: تمت کتاب بعون الوهاب به خط خام بنده خاکپای درویشان قربان علی غیاث پوری عفی الله عنه و لوالدیه به تاریخ سلخ محرم الحرام سنه ۱۲۶۸ هجری قدس موقف نماز مغرب صورت تحریر یافت. هرکه خواند دعا طلب دارم/ زانکه من بنده گنهکارم

Colophon: Qurbān ʻAlī Qīyās̲pūrī finished copying this book at the end of Muḥarram 1268 AH at the time of the evening prayer (25 Nov 1851).

Title supplied.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. ii+i+53+ii

Dimensions (leaf): 286 × 170 mm.

Dimensions (written): 243 × 123 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten. Rebound by India Office Library and stamped 17 June 1965.

Layout

Varying; 16 lines per page on average.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq, with some shikastah features. Written in black ink. Copyist: Qurbān ʻAlī Qīyās̲pūrī

Decoration

Ruled headpiece without illumination containing an invocation to God

Margins ruled in blue and red.

Binding

Quarter-leather red India Office binding with brown cloth boards stamped 17 June 1965.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 52v).

History

Origin: 30 Muḥarram 1268 AH (25 November 1851); India.

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859.

Acquired by the India Office Library as an administrative deposit in 1876.

Record Sources

Based on R. Levy's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/13, f. 71r.Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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