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Delhi Persian 1017

Record Id:
032-004341489
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1017
Title:
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 2 items (a-b)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
47 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1750
Date Range:
1700-1750
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Juvaynī
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108706241,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12392936
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1017

Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 2 items (a-b)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on eschatology and ethics. Volume not dated. Scribal nastaʿlīq by same hand throughout. Limited annotations in margins. Stamped foliation. Lacking original binding. Binding damaged (torn combed marbled paper on detached pasteboards with leather edging, missing spine), labelled. Additional loose folded paper wrapper (detached sheet from EIC legal collection, mentioning Act XXVI of 1850), watermarked ([SA]UNDERS & CO 1849), torn, creased, and stained. Folios unbound, detached from boards; wormholes, later repairs. Condition fragile.
1. ff. 1v-21v

Item a.

Untitled treatise, conventionally entitled Āghāz va anjām, on Shīʿī eschatology, covering the resurrection, last judgement, and scenarios for subsequent existence by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273-4).

The work is divided into 20 sections termed faṣl listed in the introduction.

Not dated at end.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Author: Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ناصر طوسى
2. ff. 22r-47v
Author: Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ناصر طوسى
Title: Awṣāf al-ashraf

Item b.

Treatise abridging the Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī on Sufism and ethics by the same author, Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273-4), adapted at the suggestion on the Ilkhanid courtier, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Juvaynī.

The work is divided into six sections termed bāb listed in the introduction.

Not dated at end.

Scribal nastaʿlīq.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: cloth
Extent: 47 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700-1750 18th century CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/1_f052r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/1_f052r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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