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Delhi Persian 1107
- Record Id:
- 032-004341524
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1107
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 3 items (a-c)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 175 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1718
- End Date:
- 1718
- Date Range:
- 1718
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Bukhārī Ḥusaynī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, d 1383,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000065419874,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/91095241
Bukhārī Ḥusaynī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn, d 1383,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000065419874,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/91095241
Mawlānā Bahrām
Muḥammad Afz̤al
Najm al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Rukn al-Dīn Muḥammad Niʿmat Allāh Gardīzī
Sayyid Maḥmūd Bangālī
Sayyid Ḥāmid Kabīr
Shaykh Sayyid Maḥmūd Nāṣir al-Dīn
Shaykh Sayyid Rukn al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ
[Sayyid] Shāh Lillāhī - Subjects:
- Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800 - TEI:
-
India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1107
Miscellaneous works on Sufism, 3 items (a-c)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of works relating to the saint, Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht (d. 785/1384). Volume not dated; items a and b dated (19 Ramaz̤ān 1130/16 August 1718.) separately; items share similar origins, paper and scribal hand. Contemporary and later illuminated headpieces at the beginning of the first two items. Gilt and coloured rulings throughout. Distinct scribal nastaʿlīq and taʿlīq. Catchwords often partially cropped. Pencil foliation. Occasional annotations and corrections in margins. Lacking original binding. Leather binding damaged (tooled brown leather ornamented with medallions and painted rulings over flexible pasteboards, doublures stripped away exposing inner matter), labelled. Folios unbound; cropped, stained, wormholes, later repairs. The volume is strongly scented with spice. Condition very fragile. Seals of later owners.1. ff. 1v-102vItem a.
Hagiographic treatise collecting anecdotes relating to the saints, Shaykh Sayyid Jalāl al-Dīn al-Ḥusayn [al-Ḥusaynī] al-Bukhārī the Makhdūm-i Jahāniyān (d. 785/1384), his son Shaykh Sayyid Maḥmūd Nāṣir al-Dīn, his son Sayyid Ḥāmid Kabīr, his son Shaykh Sayyid Rukn al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ.
The author, describing himself as a disciple of Shaykh Sayyid Ḥāmid Kabīr, has not been identified by name within the text. However, Storey suggests the author may be Najm al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Rukn al-Dīn Muḥammad Niʿmat Allāh Gardīzī, author of the Awrād-i Yūsufī.
Dated colophon (f. 102v): completed by Muḥammad Afz̤al for [Sayyid] Shāh Lillāhī, 19 Ramaz̤ān 1130/16 August 1718.
Severely oxidised and faded illuminated sarlawḥ in a contemporary style of floral arabesque around interlocking brackets, ʿunvān enclosing the opening basmalah on folio 1v. Gilt and coloured rulings marking the jadval of the main text.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Maḥbūbīyah2. ff. 103v-174vAuthor: Sayyid Maḥmūd BangālīTitle: Sayr'nāmahItem b.
Account of the four-decade-long travels in the Middle East of the Ṣūfī saint, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht (d. 785/1384), compiled under his supervision by his disciple, Sayyid Maḥmūd Bangālī.
Dated colophon (f. 174v): completed by Muḥammad Afz̤al, 1130/1718.
Pale painted illuminated sarlawḥ in a later style of floral arabesque within a half-turunj, ʿunvān enclosing the opening basmalah on folio 103v. Gilt and coloured rulings marking the jadval of the main text.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. ff. 174v-175vItem c.
Untitled excerpt from an unidentified hagiographic source reporting the testimony of a Mawlānā Bahrām on the death and burial of the Ṣūfī saint, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī, known as the Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahān Gasht (d. 785/1384).
Not dated at end. Completed by the same hand as that found in items a-b, and probably in the same year.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: clothExtent: 175 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 120 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1718-08-16 19 Ramaz̤ān 1130 AH; 16 August 1718 CE ; IndiaRecord 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 E207/9_f129r (digital images currently unavailable)Availability
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MSS Eur E207/9_f129r (digital images currently unavailable)Funding of Cataloguing
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