Delhi Persian 905 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Ādāb al-ṣāliḥīn by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī
Contents
The author states that his work is almost entirely translated from the chapter Muʿāmalāt (deals and affairs) of al-Ghazzālī's Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn.
Physical Description
India Office Library stamped foliation ff 1-185; pencilled foliation on every fifth folio and the last folio (183), but they do not correspond.
Collation
Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.
Condition
Fragile and worm-eaten, unbound.
Layout
13 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Indian nastaʻlīq; Arabic quotations in naskh, copied in black ink with headings and overlinings in red. Copyist Muḥammad Ṣādiq.
Decoration
Ruled margins in red and black.
Folio 1r includes seven lines of an unrelated text.
A transfer is recorded on 17th Jumadá [month and year cut off] to one Amān Allāh, placed above the seal of a court official of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
Folio 185v contains ruled margins but without any text.
Partly legible circular seal (f. 1r) of a court official of Aurangzeb, possibly reading Muḥammad Ṣāl[iḥ] khānah'zād-i ʻĀlam'gīr pādshāh, 1097 (1685/86). The seal appears to be identical with the seal of one Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, a court official of Aurangzeb whose seal appears in a similar context in BL RSPA 3.
Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 185r)
Accompanying Material
Wrapper: discarded printed sheet of an East India Company regulation.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Was possibly part of the Imperial Mughal Library or owned by the Mughal official Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ
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 E207/33, f. 13. Revised by Ali Shapouran
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