Item a.

Untitled rationalist explanation of the miʿrāj, conventionally, though not necessarily correctly, attributed to Avicenna or Shaykh al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn Ibn ʿAlī Sīnā (d. 1037).

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Clear Indian taʿlīq transcribed obliquely until folio 5r and horizontally thereafter. From folio 11, the transcription switches to neat nastaʿlīq-i khafī with a few shikastah flourishes.

Invocations repeated (f. 1r): ‘Yā Kabīkaj’. Erased rectangular personal seal: Ghulām Aḥmad Khān 1182/1768-9.

Item b.

Untitled extract from an unidentified pharmaceutical work on the benefits of certain medicinal preparations.

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Item c.

Untitled pharmaceutical work on the benefits of certain medicinal preparations, identified only at the end as an extract from the Z̲akhīrah-'i Niẓām Shāhī.

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Item d.

Unidentified brief Arabic work on optics by an unnamed author.

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Item e.

Fragment of a treatise defining and demarcating Sufism from orthodox legalism and jurisprudential sciences, entitled Maqṣad al-aqṣá by the author ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. circa 661/1262).

According to Reuben Levy, this work is a Persian translation of Nasafī’s Arabic original by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Khvārizmī (d. 838/1434-5), on the authority of Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar (vol. III). However, this is not confirmed in the work itself.

The work consists of eight faṣl.

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The work is translated by E H Palmer, Oriental Mysticism (Cambridge, 1867).

Item f.

Untitled treatise on Sufism, theology, and psychology, intended as an addendum to the Maqṣad al-aqṣá by the author ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. circa 661/1262), but forming a complete and independent work in itself.

The work lacks a formal introduction, beginning with the first bāb. It comprises a total of eight bāb and concludes with a khātimah.

The author is not named.

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Item g.

Brief untitled treatise in Arabic by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (d. 1031/1622).

Written in fine nastaʿlīq-i khafī with interlinear and marginal annotations in Arabic micrography.

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Partially erased rectangular personal seal (f. 53r): Ghulām Aḥmad Khān 1182/1768-9.

Item h.

Treatise on Shīʿī eschatology, covering the resurrection, last judgement, and scenarios for subsequent existence by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273-4).

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

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Annotations in margins.

Written in fine nastaʿlīq-i khafī with interlinear and marginal annotations in Arabic micrography.

Folio 55r shows 1) a partially erased owner’s inscriptions and seal, probably from the reign of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh; 2) an incomplete summary of contents (compare with summary before item a)

Item i.

Selection of short extracts in Arabic on magical squares with diagrams (associated with Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn) and dreams (ʿAllāmah Kulaynī), as well as extracts from Persian works by Abū al-Qāsim Findarsagī (frequently mispronounced as Findariskī), the Rashaḥāt of Kāshifī, and the Zubdat al-Ḥaqāʾiq of ʿAyn al-Quz̤z̤āt [the Amīr Kabīr, Sayyid Muḥammad] Hamadānī.

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Item j.

Untitled treatise on Sufism by Afz̤al al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshī (d. 707/1307-8).

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Annotation in margins.

Indian taʿlīq written obliquely until folio 73, switching to horizontal thereafter.

Item k.

Untitled dialectical treatise on Sufism by Afz̤al al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshī (d. 707/1307-8).

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Indian taʿlīq written in an alternating combination of horizontal and oblique sections.

Item l.

Ṣūfī treatise, erroneously titled Nafāʾis al-arqām here, on the subject of tawḥīd or divine unity by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (1016/1607-8).

The work consists of two maṭlab.

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Indian taʿlīq written in an alternating combination of horizontal and oblique sections.

Item m.

Incomplete fragment of an untitled Ṣūfī treatise on the nature and reality of the human soul, corporeal death, the characteristics of knowledge, and other subjects, by an unnamed author, attributed by Arberry to the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (1016/1607-8), whose works also feature on the same volume.

The work consists it ten faṣl listed in the introduction. However, the text ends abruptly in faṣl eight, omitting the whole of faṣl nine and ten.

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Indian taʿlīq written in an alternating combination of horizontal and oblique sections.

Item n.

Ṣūfī treatise on the experience of vajd or ecstasy by the commentator on the Gulshan-i rāz, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, known as Dihdār Fānī (1016/1607-8).

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Written in nastaʿlīq-i khafī.

Item o.

Untitled metaphysical Ṣūfī exploration on grades of existence and light, conventionally, though doubtfully, ascribed here to the famous philosopher and popular writer on logic, Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, known as Mīr Sayyid Sharīf (d. 816/1413).

An older deleted inscription attributes the work to Abū al-Barakāt Baghdādī.

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Written in nastaʿlīq-i khafī.

This work (f. 95v) is followed by an unrelated and unidentified Ṣūfī anecdote or ḥikāyat.

Item p.

Brief untitled tractate on the concept and attributes of equity attributed in the heading to al-Davvānī, that is, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʿad al-Davvānī (d. 908/1502-3).

The work is dedicated to the Āq-qūyunlu Turkmān ruler, ʿAz̤ud al-Dawlah Abū al-Muẓaffar Yaʿqūb Bahādur Khān, that is, Yaʿqūb ibn Uzūn Ḥasan (d. 896/1490).

The treatise comprises a muqaddimah, two maqālah, and a khātimah.

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Written in nastaʿlīq-i khafī.

Annotations follow on folios 101v-102r, on rare and difficult words.

Item q.

Ṣūfī treatise on knowledge of the universe and ego, by Afz̤al al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshī (d. 707/1307-8).

The work is divided into four bāb.

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Written in nastaʿlīq-i khafī.

Partially erased rectangular personal seal (f. 104r): Ghulām Aḥmad Khān 1182/1768-9.

Item r.

Fragment of an esoteric Ṣūfī treatise on attributes of the universe known through abstract conceptions of time, space, and motion, by Afz̤al al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshī (d. 707/1307-8).

The work is defective at end and copied from a possibly corrupt source, due to lacunae left in the text.

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Indian taʿlīq.

Annotations throughout.

This text is followed (f. 163r) by a brief elegiac qiṭʿah mentioning the deaths and martyrdoms for each of the Twelve Imams. On the verso are the workings out of abjad phrases with numerical values, and separately a statement of the manuscript’s ownership in red ink by the marḥūm or late Taḥsīn Ḥasan Khān ṣāḥib "Taḥsīn" takhalluṣ.