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Delhi Persian 1096B

Record Id:

032-004580209

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TEI

Reference (shelfmark):

Delhi Persian 1096B

Title:

Kanz al-sālikīn by Khvājah ʻAbd Allah Anṣārī

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

ff. 143+wrapper

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Persian

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

1600-1699

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115614935,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19703891
Muḥammad Ḥāshim
Muḥammad Hāshim
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 1096B

Kanz al-sālikīn by Khvājah ʻAbd Allah Anṣārī

Summary of Contents: A treatise on ethical Sufism written in ornate rhymed prose, attributed to Khvājah ʻAbd Allah Anṣārī on the title page, and in the text (f. 116v). The style, however, exhibits none of the archaic characteristics which might have been expected in a work of such antiquity, suggesting that it is not a genuine work by Anṣārī. In this copy there is no division into chapters or sections. The end is defective.

Author: Khvājah ʻAbd Allah Anṣārī خواجه عبدالله انصاری

Title: Kanz al-sālikīn

Title: کنز السالکین

Incipit: حمد بی حد الهی را و درود بی عدد پادشاهی را که برداشت ار دبده دلها رمد، و رفع السماء بغیر عمد.

Explicit: ای بنده من من ترا مفت سخن به خودی خود گفتم تا آموختی

The catchword on the last leaf (f. 143v) has been crossed out, and a false ending (تم) added.

A note on f. 1r states that the book had 156 folios, but currently there are only 146.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Extent: ff. 143+wrapper

Dimensions (leaf): 238 × 150 mm.

Dimensions (written): 145 × 76 mm.

Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

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

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17

17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Naskh, headings and overlinings in red. Occasional punctuation markings in red.

Decoration

Margins ruled in blue and red.

Rhyming prose is indicated in red by the term sajʻ (سجع).

Additions:

Some corrections in the margins in black and red ink.

Folio 1r includes an Arabic prayer written in naskh, with rubrications in red.

A note on f. 1r names the owner as Muḥammad Hāshim. Two other former owners' names have been deliberately erased.

A note on f. 1v records a purchase price of RS. 2.5.

Seal(s):

Unintelligible circular or oval seal, deliberately erased. (f. 1r)

Persian rectangular seal, defective and unintelligible. (f. 1v)

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 143v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: regulation, printed in Calcutta, 1846 at the Bengal Military Orphan Press.

History

Origin: 1600-1699Undated, probably 17th century. India

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by two unnamed owners followed by Muḥammad Hāshim.

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 A.J. Arberry's description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III,Mss Eur E207/1, f. 8r. Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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Subjects

Sufism