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Delhi Persian 1148
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- 032-004341535
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 1148
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Sufi works of Ni‘matullah Vali and others (Persian, Arabic, and Hindavi), 22 works (a-x)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- India Office Library
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 85 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1594
- End Date:
- 1644
- Date Range:
- 1594-1644
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Makkī, Muḥammad ibn Muẓaffar al-Dīn Muḥammad, d 1520?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000055578580,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/48978180
Muḥammad, Prophet
Muḥibb
Mādhavdās
Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109637276,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/33415216
Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109637276,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/33415216
Sayyid Ilyās
Shaykh Ṣadr Jahān
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph,, 0600?-0661,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447153020,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34436377
ʻĀlamgīr II, Emperor of Hindustan, 1754-1759
ʿAbd al-Bāqī
Ṣadr Jahān ibn Abū al-Fatḥ Pihānī - Subjects:
- Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 1148
Miscellaneous Sufi works of Ni‘matullah Vali and others (Persian, Arabic, and Hindavi), 22 works (a-x)
Contents
Summary of Contents: Collection of miscellaneous works on Sufism, mainly by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh “Valī” (d. 834/1431). The first work (item a) is the earliest dated portion, Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah 1002/July-August 1594. Folios rebound, several damaged by wormholes; net overlay over some fragile folios. Bound in IOL red leather binding, preserving volume’s tooled leather covers (these are not original). Some seal impressions of later owners dated 1054/1644-5 and 1172/1759.1. ff. 1v-4vItem a.
Treatise on Qādirī interpretations of perception through the five senses by an unnamed author writing around 1000/1591-2 at the request of one Shaykh Ṣadr Jahān, presumably identifiable with Ṣadr Jahān ibn Abū al-Fatḥ Pihānī (d. 1019/1610). Dated colophon (f. 4v): completed by Sayyid Ilyās, on the morning of Sunday Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah 10[02]/July-August 1594. Figures for the year are damaged by an intruding wormhole.
The work is written obliquely in miniscule nastaʿlīq, occasionally tending toward shikastah āmīz.
Annotation in margins.
This work is followed by a brief address to the novice Ṣūfī (f. 5r). Not dated. The hand matches the work of Sayyid Ilyās.
This work is followed by a separate, but brief, untitled treatise on mystical love beginning with an Arabic introduction, including schematic diagrams (f. 6). Not dated.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Ḥavāss-i khamsahTitle: حواسّ خمسه2. ff. 7v-8vItem b.
Unidentified treatise on spiritual matters by an unnamed author.
Clear nastaʿlīq.
Not dated at end.
Language(s): Persian and Arabic3. ff. 9v-10vItem c.
Brief collection of Ṣūfī exhortations by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).
Not dated at end.
Several notes at end indicating the work had been collated.
Language(s): Persian and ArabicTitle: Sulūk-i naṣāʾiḥTitle: سلوك نصائح4. ff. 11v-13vLanguage(s): PersianItem d.
Untitled collection of Ṣūfī aphorisms, each introduced as amānah, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 11r): Mādhavdās 1054/1644-5.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
5. ff. 14v-15rLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem e.
Treatise on the nature of the soul, composed in alternating verses and summary prose passages, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).
Not dated at end.
Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 14r): Mādhavdās […].
Note at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.
Title: Ḥaqīqat-i rūḥTitle: حقيقت روح6. ff. 16v-22rLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem f.
Ṣūfī tract on the nature of God by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Annotated in margins.
Title: Nukāt dar taḥqīq-i vujūdTitle: نكات در تحقيق وجود7. ff. 23v-25rLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem g.
Treatise on the eradication of vices originating from the ‘lower’ soul, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 23r): Mādhavdās […]. Additional note (cropped along lower edge) with the date 11 Shaʿbān RY 24.
Title: Risālah-'i nafsTitle: رسالهٴ نفس8. ff. 25v-26vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem h.
Treatise on the characteristics of man’s soul in prose and verse, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Several notes at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.
Annotations and additions in margins.
Title: Risālah-'i rūḥ-i ĀdamTitle: رسالهٴ روح آدم9. ff. 27v-29vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem i.
Treatise on Paradise and its inhabitants, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
This work is followed by a short Arabic text on a religious subject on a small sheet of paper (f. 30v).
10. ff. 31-33Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem k.
Treatise on mystical love, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 31r): Mādhavdās […].
Title: Maḥabbat'nāmahTitle: محبّت نامه11. f. 34Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem l.
Commentary or tafsīr of the Qurʾān (chapter 24, verse 35), by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
12. f. 35Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem m.
Treatise on traditions relating to the family of the Prophet Muḥammad, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Author:13. ff. 36v-38vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem n.
Treatise on spiritual benefits, comprised of multiple sections headed fayz̤, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).
Transcribe in fine nastaʿlīq.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated. Poor impression of a personal ovoid seal (f. 36r): Mādhavdās […].
Title: Fuyūz̤ātTitle: فيوضات14. ff. 39v-42rLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem o.
Treatise consisting of ten points on the metaphysical description of the human body as microcosm, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Title: Nukāt-i ʿashrTitle: نكات عشر15. ff. 43v-50vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem p.
Treatise on Ṣūfī interpretations of several passages from the Qurʾān, by an unnamed author.
Defective at end.
Not dated at end.
Clear nastaʿlīq.
Poor seal impressions (f. 43r): 1) Mādhavdās; 2) Muḥibb-i nabī [RY] 5 [of Emperor ʿĀlamgīr II]/1172/1759
Title: Majmaʿ al-futūḥTitle: مجمع الفتوح16. f. 51vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem q.
Untitled obscure Ṣūfī note.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated (cropped and faded).
17. f. 52vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem r.
Brief treatise on absence and presence, by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated by ʿAbd al-Bāqī.
18. ff. 53v-55vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem s.
Untitled account of a debate purporting to have taken place between Kumayl ibn Ziyād ibn Nahīk al-Nakhaʿī (d. 82/701) and Imām and Caliph ʿAlī (d. 661) on the subject of ultimate reality, by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
19. f. 56Language(s): Persian and ArabicItem t.
Untitled vocabulary of Ṣūfī technical terms by an unnamed author.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
20. ff. 57r-62vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem u.
Treatise on divine substance and unity by an unnamed author.
The work is divided into five bāb.
Not dated at end.
Poor impression (cropped) of a personal ovoid seal (f. 57r): Mādhavdās […].
Annotations in margins.
Title: Risālah-'i kashf al-asrārTitle: رسالهٴ كشف الاسرار21. ff. 63v-66vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem w.
Treatise addressing multiple conceptions of barzakh or the liminal space between heaven and hell, by an unnamed author.
The concluding text runs into the right margin, transcribed obliquely.
Not dated at end.
Note at end indicating the work had been collated.
Annotations in margins.
Title: Risālah-'i barāzikhTitle: رسالهٴ برازخ22. ff. 67r-85vLanguage(s): Persian and ArabicItem x.
Fragment of a larger compendium of works by the poet and Ṣūfī leader, Nūr al-Dīn Niʿmat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Kirmānī, commonly known as Niʿmat Allāh "Valī" (d. 834/1431).
The fragment is defective at the beginning and is comprised of several portions of heterogeneous origins and nastaʿlīq hands running in continued succession, with corresponding catchwords.
Not dated at end.
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 85 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 277 × 177 mm.Dimensions (written):Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1594-07-1644 Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah 1002 (July 1594 - 1644) AH ; 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 E207/2_f047r (digital images currently unavailable)Availability
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