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Delhi Persian 1082

Record Id:

032-004580199

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Delhi Persian 1082

Title:

Ṣaḥāʼif al-maʻrifah by Abū ʻAbd Allah ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ahmad al-Rāzī al-Muqrī

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

ff. ii+54+wrapper.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

1700-1799

Calendar:

Gregorian

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Material Type:

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Names:

Abū ʻAbd Allah ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ahmad al-Rāzī al-Muqrī
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ḥasan Ṭāhir
Bahādur Khān Jhajhāvī
Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Muḥammad Murād Rāmpūrī
Muḥammad Sādiq Jhajhāvī
Sheida Heydarishovir
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262

Subjects:

Sufism

TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1082

Ṣaḥāʼif al-maʻrifah by Abū ʻAbd Allah ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ahmad al-Rāzī al-Muqrī

Summary of Contents: A treatise on sufism comprising a preface and three sections (saḥīfah), consisting of ten vaṣl and ten faṣl. The author says he has attained the wisdom in this book from his master, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ḥasan Ṭāhir, and he from a chain of 24 other Ṣufīs, going back to the Shiʻi Imams (ff. 44v-45r). The manuscript lacks the beginning and end.

Author: Abū ʻAbd Allah ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ahmad al-Rāzī al-Muqrī ابوعبدالله عبدالرزاق ابن احمد الرازی المقری

Title: Ṣaḥāʼif al-maʻrifah

Title: صحائف المعرفة

Incipit: امیدوار الملتجی الی الله الواحد الاحد القوی ابوعبدالله عبدالرزاق ابن الاحمد الرازی المقری لازال فانیا عن ذاته و باقیا بربه که به حکم اشارت قوله تعالی یطاف علیهم بصحاف من ذهب و اکواب و فیها ما تشتهیه الانفس و تلذ الاعین.

Explicit: وصل دهم گر ترک رضای خود بگویی / یابی ز خدا بسی نکویی. قال الله...

Language(s): Persian

ff. 49v-50r contain an oval diagram with signs of the zodiac and the heavens around the edge, with explanations of some of the terms. The margins of both pages contain poetry and a passage in praise of prophet Muḥammad.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: ff. ii+54+wrapper.

Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 156 mm.

The dimensions vary.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation; Persian foliation is numbered 4-54, beginning at f. 3r.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten and damp-stained. Without binding and encased in plain wrapper.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15 22

15-22 lines per page, depending on the scribe.

Hand(s)

Copied in 6 different hands, all in nastaʻliq, in black ink, mostly with spaces left for headings.

ff. 1r-11v. Nasta'liq, compact and neat; 19 lines per page.

ff. 12r-19v. Thicker nastaʻliq; Arabic vocalised; 17 lines per page.

f. 20. 15 lines per page.

ff. 21r-28v. Neat nasta'liq; 22 lines per page; scribe, Muḥammad Murād Rāmpūrī (?).

ff. 29r-36v. Cursive nastaʻliq, some headings in red; 19 lines per page; scribe: Muḥammad Sādiq Jhajhāvī(?).

ff. 37r-44v. Thick nastaʻliq; 15 lines oer page; scribe: Bahādur Khān Jhajhāvī(?).

ff. 45r-53v. Headings and diacritical marks in red; 21 lines per page; same scribe as ff. 1-11.

Additions:

Additions include some poetry, Persian translations of Arabic words, glosses (f. 2), quotation from the Prophet (f. 24v), and marginal repetition of poetry in another hand (ff. 25r, 27v, 28r).

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r and 53v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: East India Company Acquittance Roll dated June 1828. Watermarked ‘ J. Whatman Balston & Co. 1828 ’, ripped in the middle.

Folio i: fragment, probably from another manuscript, of court correspondence, written in black ink, nastaʻliq. Leaf dimensions: 200 mm x 119 mm/ written: 165 mm x 750 mm), 11 lines per page.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 Undated, probably 18th century CE India

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Acquired by the Government of India in 1876

Record Sources

Based on A.J. Arberry's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, MSS Eur E207/3 , f. 12r (digital images currently unavailable), and R. Levy 's description, Mss Eur E207/12, f. 117r (digital images currently unavailable). Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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Subjects

Sufism