Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 15657 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Maslak al-muttaqin

Contents

1 copy of Maslak al-muttaqīn by Allāh Yār Khan Bukhārī

A lengthy didactic poem on aspects of theology and law by Ṣūfī Allāhyār (or Ilāhyār) Khan Bukhārī (fl. 1050/1640).

Contents: introduction, on Islamic doctrine, and four books concerning purification, ritual prayer, zakāt and fasting according to Ḥanafī fiqh.

Book 1 was completed in 1111/1699, Book 2 the following year.

Colophon, f. 396v. Copied at the Ādīnah (Friday) Madrasa at Faizabad, in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Mullā ‘Āshūr Muḥammad. Completed at breakfast time on Friday 19 Ṣafar 1284/22 June 1867.

Other contents: front endpaper and f. 1r, owners’ scribbles; 1r, ownership inscription dated 1339/1920-21; 396v, note of a payment and a bayt of verse.

Language(s): Persian
Filiation:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 396 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 149 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Mullā ‘Āshūr Muḥammad

Decoration

Headings, text frames and columns in red.

Additions:

Binding

Binding: thick boards with impressed medallions and lacquer decoration, very worn.

History

Origin: 19 Ṣafar 1284 AH; 22 June 1867 CE ; Faizabad, Badakhshan

Provenance and Acquisition

2000-10-11

Acquired from Bonhams sale 11 October 2000, part of Lot 128.

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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