Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on Sufism.

Notes

• Ms. gatherings.
• Title from fol. 4a.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on beige paper. Catchwords and rubrication. Extensive insect damage. Text on fol. 4b-81b; fol. 82 contains poetry.
• Origin: Dated 1203 AH (1788 or 9) (fol. 81b).

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Sayyid ʻAlī Muẓaffar on fol. 4a and 81b; owner's statement of Sayyid Yaʻqūb ʻAlī dated 1223 AH (1808) (fol. 81b).

Source acquisition

Purchase; 2002/9/4 (2003-33).

OCLC

449885457

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