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Delhi Persian 666
- Record Id:
- 032-004378060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004378060
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100169703494.0x000015
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Persian 666
- Title:
- 1 copy of Safīnat al-awliyāʾ by Dārā Shukūh
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-004378060
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-004378060
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 216 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1739
- End Date:
- 1739
- Date Range:
- 1739
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Dārā Shikūh, Prince, son of Shahjahan, Emperor of India, 1615-1659,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071395450,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27879596
Dārā Shikūh, Prince, son of Shahjahan, Emperor of India, 1615-1659,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071395450,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27879596 - TEI:
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India Office Library
Delhi Persian 666
Contents
1 copy of Safīnat al-awliyāʾ by Dārā Shukūh
Language(s): Persian and ArabicSubstantive collection of hagiographical entries covering the lives of significant scholars and saints of the Qādirī, Chishtī, Kubravī, Suhravardī, and Naqshbandī schools of Sufism, by the Timurid (Mughal) prince, Sulṭān Muḥammad Dārā Shukūh ibn Shāh Jahān (d. 1069/1658), who calls himself here Dārā Shukūh Ḥanafī Qādirī.
Dated colophon (ff. 215v-216r): completed by Ghulām Muʿīn al-Ḥaqq Anṣārī Chishtī Quddūsī Rāmpūrī for ‘uncle’ Anṣārī Khān Ṣāḥib, 4 Z̲ū al-Qaʿdah in RY 21 of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 1151/13 February 1739.
Scribal nastaʿlīq; rubricated headings are frequently omitted.
Annotations.
Foliated in pencil throughout.
Original covers lost.
Loose folded paper wrapper (ledger, fragment of Acquittance Roll, dated November 1829, January 1830, Calcutta); watermarked (J Whatman […]); torn, stained, and incomplete. Folios unbound; cropped, water and fungal stains, creased, wormholes.
Condition fragile.
Title: Safīnat al-awliyāʾTitle: سفينة الاولياءPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperExtent: 216 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 201 × 129 mm.Hand(s)
History
Origin: 1739-02-13 4_Zu_al-Qa‘dah_1151 AH; 13 February 1739 CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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