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Delhi Persian 1092B

Record Id:
032-004580220
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Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 1092B
Title:
Kashf al-maḥjūb by Hujvīrī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+340 + wrapper
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1700
Date Range:
1600-1700
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Aḥmad Qīyām al-Dīn
Bābā Afz̤al, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000358643888,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/211269318
Lārī, Raz̤ī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr, d 1506,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000078896530,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78148995935359751416
Muḥammad Nūr
Sayyid Khvājah Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn
Sheida Heydarishovir
Subjects:
Sufism
Sufism--Early works to 1800
TEI:

India Office Library

Delhi Persian 1092B

Kashf al-maḥjūb by Hujvīrī

Contents

Summary of Contents: The well-known treatise on Sufism, Kashf al-maḥjūb, composed in the 11th century CE by ʻAlī ibn Us̱mān Hujvīrī.
Author: ʻAlī ibn Us̱mān Hujvīrī علی بن عثمان هجویری
Title: Kashf al-maḥjūb
Title: کشف المحجوب
Incipit: ربنا آتنا من لدنک رحمته و هی لنا من امرنا رشدا. الحمد لله الذی کشف الاولیاء بواطن ملکوته الخ.
Explicit: و اندر حکایات مشهور است که جنید و محمد بن مسروق

On f. 1v, the author's name is misspelt as Ḥujvīrī.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+340 + wrapper
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

India Office stamped foliation.

Collation

Catchwords.

Condition

End defective; slightly worm-eaten and damp-stained. Loose leaves. Without binding and encased in a wrapper.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red.

Decoration

Margins ruled in yellow and outer frame in blue.

Additions:

Marginal corrections and a few glosses.

Folio 1r includes an undated note by a former owner Aḥmad Qīyām al-Dīn who was presented with the book by his father Sayyid Khvājah Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn . A second note at the bottom of the page has been erased but the date 1201 (1786/87) can be read.

Folio 1v includes a prayer? in another hand at the top of the page. The same has been repeated in the margin of f. 147v.

Seal(s):

Black Government of India Delhi MSS oval stamp (ff. 1r, 339v).

Black undated oval seal of Muḥammad Nūr (f. 148v).

Accompanying Material

Wrapper: East India Company Acquittance Roll dated April 1833. Watermarked J. Whatman Balston & Co., 1828.

History

Origin: 1600-1700Undated; probably 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sayyid Khvājah Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn to his son Aḥmad Qīyām al-Dīn (note on f. 1r).

Owned by Muḥammad Nūr (his seal f. 148v).

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 description in Drafts for Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. III, Mss Eur E207/13, f. 10r. Revised by Sheida Heydarishovir

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