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Delhi Persian 1194

Record Id:
032-004341568
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Delhi Persian 1194
Title:
Miscellaneous collection on sectarian polemics and Arabic, 4 items (a-d)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
85 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1775
End Date:
1825
Date Range:
1775-1825
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1194

Miscellaneous collection on sectarian polemics and Arabic, 4 items (a-d)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection on sectarian polemics and Arabic, comprising four heterogeneous items from differing sources. Volume not dated. Rough nastaʿlīq. Annotated in margins. Stamped foliation. Binding damaged, boards covered with marbled paper and brown leather edging; marbling delaminating and torn, exposing inner matter (Persian correspondence and Kaithi text). Dimensions of binding are smaller than the text block. Binding broken, detached boards (pale green floral decorative paper edged with brown leather; torn and rubbed). Folios unbound, in order of foliation; minor damage. Condition moderately fragile. Seal erased.
1. ff. 1v-18v

Item a.

Untitled treatise on epistemology by an unnamed author.

The work comprises three sections termed guftār.

Not dated at end.

Crudely illuminated and oxidising sar lawḥ at beginning.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
2. ff. 19v-44r

Item b.

Untitled polemic treatise on Shīʿah perspectives regarding the illegitimacy of the Umayyad Caliphate, by an unnamed author. For another copy of the same work, see item c.

Not dated at end.

Occasional dense annotations in margin.

Legible shikastah āmīz.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 46v-74v

Item c.

Untitled treatise on Shīʿah perspectives regarding the illegitimacy of the Umayyad Caliphate, by an unnamed author. For another copy of the same work, see item b.

Not dated at end.

Occasional dense annotations in margin.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
4. ff. 76r-84v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Item d.

Untitled Persian manual on the morphology of Arabic vocabulary by an unnamed author.

Not dated at end.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 85 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1775-1825 18th-19th 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 E207/10_f168r (digital images currently unavailable)

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Bibliography

    MSS Eur E207/10_f168r (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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