Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4622 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of Anīs al-ʻāqilīn by Mullā Mīr Qārī Gīlānī

Incipit: سبحان من تحیر فی ذاته سواه فهم و خرد بکنه کمالش نزده راه

A collection of ethical and religious sayings and stories completed on 23 Muḥarram 1005

This copy may be unique

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 388.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 82 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 9.2 × 4.7 in.
Dimensions (written): 7.2 × 2.8 in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Indian nastaʻlīq

Decoration

Rubrications

Additions:

Indifferent paper

History

Origin: 17th century CE

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

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