Delhi Persian 1192 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Maktūbāt by Mullā Maḥmūd Jawnpūrī

Summary of Contents: The spiritual letters of Mullā Maḥmūd Jawnpūrī whose full name was Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārūqī Jawnpūrī. He studied under Muḥammad Afz̤al Jawnpūrī and moved to Agra where he made the acquaintance of Shāh Jahān's minister Āṣaf Khān. He died in 1076/1666. His correspondents in this collection are oneʻAbd al-Rashīd Jawnpūrī (f. 1v), from whom replies are preserved (f.37v), Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad Qanawjī (f. 72r), ʻAbd al-Karīm (f. 76r), ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khayrābādī (f. 94r) and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (f. 145r).

Author: Mullā Maḥmūd Jawnpūrī ملا محمود جونپوری

Title: Maktūbāt

Title: مکتوبات

Incipit: به میان شیخ عبد الرشید جونپوری. خدمت جامع الفضایل و الکمالات حقایق آگاه پیوسته بر منصه ارشاد و تلقین امور کما هی جلوه گر باشند. التفات نامه رسید حقیقت حال به وضوح انجامید.

Explicit: اکابر اهل الله از انبیا و اولیاء کل منزه باشند از وجد و حال. هیچ احدی در زمانه ایشان از ایشان عاقلتر و هوشیارتر نباشد و در جمیع امور. زیاده چه نویسد والسلام.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. ii+190+iii

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 175 mm.

Dimensions (written): 170 × 85 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation. Persian foliation, not matching the stamped one from f. 117 on.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Worm-eaten. Remargined and rebound by India Office.

Layout

18 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; written in black ink.

Additions:

F. 1r contains an incomplete table of contents, giving the name of correspondents and page references.

F. 1r contains 4 deliberately erased seals of which only the date 1166 of one can be read. It is placed with a note stating that the manuscript was bought in the year 1166 AH (1752 CE). Another note that has been crossed out reads "the year of death of ... (illegible)".

Binding

Three-quarter red leather India Office binding dating from the latter half of the 20th century.

Seal(s):

Four deliberately erased rectangular seals, one dated 1166 (1752 CE) (f.1r).

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 190v).

History

Origin: Undated, probably 18th century.

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. 62r. Revised bySheida Heydarishovir.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World