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Delhi Persian 71

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032-004343591
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 71
Title:
Miscellaneous works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 volume (42 ff.,80 ff.,42 ff.,4 ff.,49 ff.)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1580
End Date:
1840
Date Range:
1580-1840
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abū Ḥanīfah, d 0768?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115770954,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88126052
Abū Ḥanīfah, d 0768?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115770954,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88126052
Aṣaf al-Dawlah, 1748-1797 (r 1795-1797),
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4638161696247516120008
Aṣaf al-Dawlah, 1748-1797 (r 1795-1797),
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4638161696247516120008
Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī Bayhaqī
Laṭāfat ʿAlī Khān
Muḥammad Karīm Allāh
Rawshan Z̤amīr
Shaykh Abū Saʿīd Abīvirdī
Shāh ʻĀlam, Emperor of Hindustan, 1728-1806,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082588629,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70169499
Shāh ʻĀlam, Emperor of Hindustan, 1728-1806,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082588629,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/70169499
Subjects:
Hadith
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 71

Miscellaneous works

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of five separate works on religion, ethics, biography, and erotic poetry. According to notes on flyleaves, the volume was purchased with the aid of a certain Muḥammad Karīm Allāh; multiple magic number grids and formulae on first flyleaf. Bound, but lacking original covers

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1580-1840 16th-19th centuries CE ; India

a

Contents

1. ff. 1v-42v

Unidentified collection of Prophetic traditions with translation and commentary, comprised of 40 bābs

The work lacks any preface or introduction and begins with the first bāb

Dated colophon (f. 42v): 9 Rajab in regnal year 43 [of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam?]/25 October 1803

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 42 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 1803-10-25 9 Rajab in regnal year 43 AH; 25 October 1803 CE ; India

b

Contents

2. ff. 43r-123v
Title: Akhlāq-i Muḥsinīn
Title: اخلاق محسنين

Incomplete fragment of the treatise on ethics for rulers, entitled Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī (here written with a nassal ending), probably by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī Bayhaqī

The work consists of forty bābs, but here ends abruptly in the thirty-third bāb

Defective at beginning and end

Not dated

Note (f. 43r), top left corner, stating the work was purchased with the aid of a certain Muḥammad Karīm Allāh

Replacement leafs (ff. 43-45) in neater and more legible shikastah āmīz hand than the older portion, which s in a more mannered, awkward naskh

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Bound in scroll along top and bottom edge; cloth backing
Extent: 80 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 149 mm.

History

Origin: 1750-1840 1750 - 1840 CE ; India

c

Contents

3. ff. 124v-187v

Untitled biography of the prominent Sunnī theologian and jurist often referred to by the epithet Imām-i Aʿẓam, Abū Ḥanīfah Nuʿmān ibn S̲ābit al-Kūfī, endorsed as the Manāqib al-Ḥanīfah, ascribed to Shaykh Abū Saʿīd Abīvirdī

The work is divided into twelve maqṣad

Defective at end

Not dated

Note (f. 125r), top left corner, stating the work was purchased with the aid of a certain Muḥammad Karīm Allāh Erased seal at beginning

Torn at beginning

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 42 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 1580-1650 1580 - 1650 CE ; India or Central Asia

d

Contents

4. ff. 188r-192v

Unidentified Sunnī polemic written in response to a particular attack on the reputation of the prominent Sunnī theologian and jurist often referred to by the epithet Imām-i Aʿẓam, Abū Ḥanīfah Nuʿmān ibn S̲ābit al-Kūfī, in 15 Ramaz̤ān 1241/23 April 1826

Defective at end

Not dated

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 4 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 1826-04-23 -1840 23 April 1826 - 1840 CE ; India

e

Contents

5. ff. 193r-242r

Mas̲navī based on a translation of the Sanskrit sex manual, the Kokashastra, possibly by the poet Rawshan Z̤amīr, recasting the work in unaffected Persian verse in 1192/1778. This is a rare and early copy

Containing contemporary references and passages praising Bengal, Navvāb Āṣaf al-Dawlah, Laṭāfat ʿAlī Khān (patron?), and the accession of the throne of the Timurud or Mughal Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam

Defective at beginning

Neatly written nastaʿlīq, but damaged by water; unbound, with covers

Dated colophon (f. 242r): 15 Ṣafar regnal year 24 of Shāh ʿĀlam, 1197/20 January 1783

Language(s): Persian
Title: Laṭāfat'afzā
Title: لطافت افزا

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 49 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 142 mm.

History

Origin: 1783-01-20 15 Ṣafar regnal year 24 of Shāh ʿĀlam, 1197 AH; 20 January 1783 CE ; India

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