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Delhi Persian 1091

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032-004580205
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1091
Title:
A compilation of works by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn (a-c)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. 50 + wrapper
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1775
End Date:
1857
Date Range:
1775-1857
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, 1692?-1766?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066773816,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/50013027
Navāzish ʻAlī
Sheida Heydarishovir
Subjects:
Sufi literature, Persian
Sufism--Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1091

A compilation of works by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn (a-c)

Contents

Summary of Contents: A volume containing 3 works by Muḥammad ʻAlī bin ʻAbī Ṭālib bin ʻAbd Allāh al-Lāhijī, known as Ḥazīn: a) Dastūr al-ʻuqalā, on the ideal qualities and duties of rulers; b) Fatḥ al-subul, a Sufi treatise on the nature of God and the merits of theology as opposed to philosophy; c) Maktūbāt, letters on subjects ranging from the numerical properties of letters of the alphabet to the art of poetry.
Delhi Persian 1091a. ff. 1v-20v
Author: Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, ca. 1692- ca. 1766 محمدعلی حزین
Title: Dastūr al-ʻuqalā
Title: دستور العقلا
Incipit: (f. 1v) یا واهب التوفیق. و یا معطی التحقیق. ثبت لساننا بالصدق. و قلوبنا بالتصدیق
Explicit: (f. 20v)و سقاه فی المصیر الیه. من کاس المقربین. ممن لدیه لزلفی. و کان

The end is defective, indicated by a catchword at the bottom of f. 20v followed by a blank page.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Filiation:

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, [https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!13_f006r] (digital images currently unavailable)Mss Eur E207/13, f. 6r.
Delhi Persian 1091b. ff. 21v-44v
Author: Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, ca. 1692- ca. 1766 محمد علی حزین
Title: Fatḥ al-subul
Title: فتح السبل
Incipit: (f. 21v) بحمدک یا مفتح الابواب. افتح لنا ابواب رحمتک و اقض علینا انوار فضلک
Explicit: (f. 44v) و در آنچه تبصیص کنیم محتاج به برهان و اقامت دلیل نبوده دعوای ما را قایم مقام دلیل خواهند داشت. تم
Colophon: (f. 44v) به اتمام رسید رساله فتح السبل من تصنیف شیخ محمدعلی حزین به خط ضعیف المذنب نوازش علی

A note on f. 44v names the scribe as Navāzish ʻAlī.

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, [https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!13_f007r] (digital images currently unavailable)Mss Eur E207/13, f. 7r.
Delhi Persian 1091c.
Author: Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, ca. 1692- ca. 1766 محمد علی حزین
Title: Maktūbāt
Title: مکتوبات
Incipit: (f. 45v) در سلک نظم تهجی حروفی دیدم قرین هم مقدم تالی و تالی مقدم.
Explicit: (f. 50v) خیر الوری ... الواثق به عروة ... الوثقی محمد المشتهر به علی الزاهدی الجیلانی. ختم الله بالحسنی. تم.

Title is supplied.

Language(s): Persian

References

R. Levy, Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, [https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=mss_eur_e207!13_f008r] (digital images currently unavailable)Mss Eur E207/13, f. 8r.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. 50 + wrapper
Dimensions (leaf): 243 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

Damp-stained and loose leaves. Without binding and enclosed in a wrapper.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings, overlinings and punctuaton marks in red. The scribe of item b) calls himself Navāzish ʻAlī and is probably the scribe of the whole volume.

Additions:

The margins include glosses, comments and translations of Arabic phrases.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 50v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: Half torn. Reused India Office regulation dated 1793.

History

Origin: Undated, probably late 18th or early 19th century 19th 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 in1876

Record Sources

Based on R. Levy's descriptions in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III as detailed above. Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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