Or 14468 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Nine texts including awrād, supplications, and texts on talismans

1. ff 4v-6r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Divine Names
Title: Asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná
Title: أسماء الله الحسنى
Language(s): Interlinear Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
2. ff 6v-9r
Author and Translator: Anonymous
Author and Translator: translator Anonymous
Title: Chihil Ḥadīs̲
Title: چهل حديث

Forty Prophetic Traditions, with translations

Language(s): Arabic with Persian translation

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 3.
3. ff 9v-12r
Author: Ibrāhīm ibn Adʹham, d. ca. 777 إبراهيم بن أدهم
Title: Awrād
Title: اوراد

Title has been supplied by Waley 1998, page 7.

Formulae of invocation attributed to the early Central Asian Sufi Ibrāhīm ibn Adʹham

Language(s): Arabic with preface in Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
4. ff 11v-12r (margins)
Author: Simnānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1261-1336 سمنانى، احمد بن محمد
Title: Untitled work

Occult lore concerning the Rijāl al-ghayb, ( رجال الغیب ) and abdāl. Attributed to ʻAlā al-Dawla Simnānī, علاء الدولة السمناني , (659/1261-736/1336)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
5. ff 12v-39r
Author: Lāhawrī, Saʻd Allāh Lāhawrī, Saʻdī Mujaddidī, d. 1108/1696 لاهورى، سعد الله لاهورى، سعدی مجددى
Title: Favāʼid-i ijāzah rasīdah az Makhdūm Saʻd Allāh Lāhawrī
Title: فوايد إجازة رسیده از مخدوم سعد الله لاهورى

Litanies, supplications, and spiritual counsel of Saʻd Allāh Lāhawrī

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
6. ff 39v-77v
Author: Muḥammad Muʻīn sākin-i Thattah محمد معین ساکن تهته
Title: Favāʼid-i ijāzah rasīdah az Makhdūm Muḥammad Muʻīn sākin-i Thattah
Title: فوايد إجازة رسیده از مخدوم محمد معین ساکن تهته

Spiritual dicta and litanies of Muḥammad Muʻīn of Thatta (Pakistan)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
7. ff 80r-81r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Brief tract on the method and benefits of reciting certain Sūras
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
8. ff 96r-95v (sic: text written upside down)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tract on the healing powers, etc., of certain formulae
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.
9. ff 96v-97v
Author: Anonymous
Title: An untitled tract on talismans, with diagrams
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Waley 1998, page 7.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 97 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 14 cm.

History

Origin: 12th century AH ; India

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M. I. Waley: Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998

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