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Delhi Persian 1035

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032-004341503
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Delhi Persian 1035
Title:
Treatise on Sufism
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1675
End Date:
1725
Date Range:
1675-1725
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Delhi Persian 1035

Treatise on Sufism

Contents

1 copy of Zubdat al-sulūk tuḥfatan lil-mulūk min al-ṣuʿlūk

Title: Zubdat al-sulūk tuḥfatan lil-mulūk min al-ṣuʿlūk
Title: زبدة السّلوك تحفةً للملوك من الصّعوك
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Treatise epitomising Sufi principles, with copious Arabic quotations, by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Elegant, if not quite calligraphic, shikastah āmīz throughout.

Annotations in margins.

Later illumination added with yellow paint in jadval rulings and heightened with silver ornamentation on the opening folios.

Damaged brown leather binding with faded painted edges, spine missing; labels.

Additional loose folded paper wrapper (folded fragment of detached sheet from EIC legal collection, mentioning Regulation XIII of 1816 on opium), partial watermark (seated Britannia or Minerva in oval frame), creased, and stained.

Folios unbound, detached from boards; excessive wormholes, later repairs.

Condition very fragile.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 22 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 96 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1675-1725 17th-18th centuries 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/4_f036r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/4_f036r (digital images currently unavailable)

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