Delhi Persian 1133 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Maktūbāt by Khvājah Muḥammad Maʻṣūm

Summary of Contents: A collection by an unnamed compiler of the letters of Khvājah Muḥammad Maʻṣūm, son of the saint Aḥmad Sirhindī (d. 1070/1659). This collection contains 239 letters. An alternative title, Durrat al-tāj is suggested on f. 2v, which is a chronogram for the date of completion AH 1039 (1629 CE).

Author: Muḥammad Maʻṣūm ibn Aḥmad Sirhindī محمد معصوم بن احمد سرهندی

Title: Maktūbāt | Khvājah Muḥammad Maʻṣūm

Title: Maktūbāt

Title: مکتوبات

Incipit: الحمد لله العلی الاعلی... اما بعد این لآلی است منشوره و جواهریست منشوره که شناوران بحر عرفان از قعر غیبت به غواصی جذبات احدیت برآورده الخ.

Explicit: مانا که معنی انقلاب علم به حال آن است که چنانچه قبل معرفة اخذ علوم ار ادله شرعیه و به طریق استدلال بود بعد حصول معرفة آن علوم به طریق کشف و متلقی من الله سبحانه باشد و السلام علی من اتبع الهدی الخ.

Colophon: تم تم تمام شد

Title taken from a note on f. 1r.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. ii+219+ii

Dimensions (leaf): 252 × 180 mm.

Dimensions (written): 190 × 85 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation on some pages, others added with pencil.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Damp-stained. Gauzed, remargined and rebound by the India Office Library.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

F.1r contains added verses.

Some marginal corrections and additions.

Binding

Quarter-leather red India Office binding stamped 1974.

History

Origin: Undated, probably 18th century; 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 A.J. Arberry's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/3, f. 79r and R. Levy's description in the same work, Mss Eur E207/13, f. 76r. Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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