Delhi Persian 1139 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Malfūẓ-i Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn by Badr al-Dīn Isḥāq

Summary of Contents: A compilation of the sayings and teachings, also referred to in the preface (f. 1v) as Asrār al-Awliyāʾ, of the Qadiri saint Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn Ganj-i Shakar, compiled by his disciple Badr al-Dīn Isḥāq. The book is devided into 22 chapters.

Author: Badr al-Dīn Isḥāq بدر الدین اسحاق

Title: Malfūẓ-i Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn

Title: ملفوظ شیخ فرید الدین

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. این نسخه ملفوظ قطب الاقطاب عالمتاب بندگی حضرت مخدوم المشایخ و الاولیاء شیخ فرید الدین گنجشکر قدس الله سره العزیز. الحمد لله الذی الخ. حمد بیحد و ثنای بیعد مر حضرت صمدیت را که از فیض و فضل او فواید از الفاظ دربار صاحب المکارم... به سمع این درویش می رسید فواید آن را نوشته این مسایل را اسرار الاولیا نام نهاده شد.

Explicit: پس این بود از اسرار و انوار لفظ دربار از کان شیخ الاسلام شنیده شد در مدت دوازده سال که اگر بعد از این گوهر جان باقی خواهد شد هر دری که از لفظ مبارک ایشان شنیده خواهد شد آن نوشته خواهد آمد انشاء الله تعالی.

Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة الملفوظ بندگی حضرت شیخ المشایخ و الاولیا... فرید الحق و الدین قدس الله سره العزیز. کاتبه و مالکه میر محمد ولد شیخ م... ابن شیخ مصطفی غوری متوطن قلعه رهتاس سنه ۱۱۱۱ هجری فی یوم الاحد شهر رجب المرجب.

Colophon: Owned and copied by Mīr Muḥammad son of Shaykh M... ibn Shaykh Muṣṭafā Ghūrī, resident of the fort of Ruhtās, on Sunday in Rajab 1111 AH (1699 CE).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. ii+i+48+iii

Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 160 mm.

Dimensions (written): 190 × 90 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Worm-eaten. Gauzed, remargined and rebound by India Office in 1936.

Layout

18 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Shikastah-nastaʻlīq; copied in black. Copyist is Mīr Muḥammad Ghūrī.

Additions:

F. 1r contains a verse in Persian, and f. 48v verses in Urdu.

Binding

Half-leather red India Office binding stamped 1 Jan 1936.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 48v).

History

Origin: Rajab 1111 AH (1699 CE); Ruhtās Fort, Pakistan.

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned byMīr Muḥammad Ghūrī. .

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 E207/1, f. 49r and R. Levy's description in the same work, Mss Eur E207/13, f. 86r. Revised bySheida Heydarishovir

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