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Delhi Persian 596

Record Id:
032-004546217
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Delhi Persian 596
Title:
Tarjumah-’i Khulāṣat al-mafākhir
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. 235 [ie. ff. 2-236]+i
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1621
End Date:
1621
Date Range:
1621
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Jalāl al-Dīn Bukhārī
Muḥammad Karīm Allāh
Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066753540,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017634
Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, d 1367,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117782713,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/102404336
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, 1077-1166,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000091691521,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71359982
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, 1077-1166,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000091691521,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71359982
Subjects:
Muslim saints
Qādirīyah
Sufis Biography Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 596

Tarjumah-’i Khulāṣat al-mafākhir

Contents

Summary of Contents: A translation by by an anonymous disciple of Jalāl al-Dīn Bukhārī (جلال الدین بخاری) of Uc̲h̲h, known as Makhdūm-i Jahāniyān (d. 1384) of biographical anecdotes largely about ʻAbd al-Qādir Jilānī (عبد القادر جلانى), written as a supplement to the Arabic work Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-Ṣāliḥīn by Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, d. 1367 (يافعی، عبد الله بن أسعد).
Title: Tarjumah-’i Khulāṣat al-mafākhir
Title: ترجمهٔ خلاصة المفاخر
Colophon: Folio 235v: Completed 26 Muḥarram 1031 (10 December 1621) in Dacca (Dhākah) for Miyān Sīdū(?).
Language(s): Persian

Contents listed on ff. 3r-4v.

Followed at the end by some sayings of ʻAbd al-Qādir (ff. 235v-236r).

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. 235 [ie. ff. 2-236]+i
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliated in pencil: 2-236 and in Persian: 5-241.

Collation

Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.

Condition

Loose leaves, detached binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with heading in red.

Additions:

Note (f. 6r) mentions that it was purchased by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh and also gives the alternate titles Takmilah-’i Sayyid ʻAbd al-Qādir Jilānī and Takmila’i Rawḍat al-rayāḥīn

Binding

Red leather binding with gilt triple-ruled frame, probably dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. Paper pastedowns

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS stamp (ff. 6r, 236v).

History

Origin: 1621-12-1026 Muḥarram 1031 AH (10 December 1621 CE); Dacca, Bangladesh

Provenance and Acquisition

Formerly owned by Muḥammad Karīm Allāh who was active in the mid-19th century.

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents in 1859. Administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876.

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on C.A. Storey's description in "Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III" [https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!9_f111r] (digital images currently unavailable)Mss Eur 207/9, ff. 111-2. . Revised by Ursula Sims-Williams

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