Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in shikastah in black by different hands on a variety of glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive insect damage and numerous paper repairs; occasional staining.
Origin: According to Moghadam, probably from the 18th century.
Incipit: [ملخص جمعات شاهيه] الحمد لله الذي نور قلوبنا بانوار الهداية والايقان وشرح صدورنا باسرار الحقايق والعرفان -- [Biography of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī] ترانه سپاس و ثنائي خداوندى قادر ذو الجلال گفتن سزاوار است که غوث اعظم اولىاء طرىقت لطف عام او است -- [Part of a Sufi hagiography] ذکر ىازدهم ابراهىم اد‌م رحمة الله علىه آن سلطان دنىا و دىن و آن سىمرغ قاف ىقىن -- [Metaphysical and mystical poem] تنه آدم هى کس تمثىل * چون جمع بعد از تفصىل آنجا آدم بدان ماند چون جمع بعد از تفصىل
Binding note
Half leather with marbled paper covers.
Language note
Persian and Urdu.
Contents
1. leaves 1b-10b: Jild-i ūlá min Mulakhkhaṣ-i Jumʻāt-i Shāhīyah / Jalālī Aḥmadābādī. An abridgement of the Kunūz-i Muḥammadī of Muḥammad Shāh ʻĀlam, a collection of Friday discussions compiled by Farīd Allāh ibn Dawlatshāh Jilvānī. The selection consists of four sermons which were given in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 871.
2. leaf 11a: [Verses and notes].
3. leaves 11b-17b: [Biography of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī]. Incomplete at end.
4. leaves 18a-22b: [Part of the introduction to the Kārnamah] / Munīr Lāhawrī. Introduction to an Indian story of the adventures of Prince Wāla Akhtar, also known as the Kāristān; incomplete at beginning and end.
5. leaves 23a-33b: [Part of a Sufi hagiography]. On leaf 26b begins zikr-i yāzdahum for Ibrāhīm [ibn] Adʹham; incomplete at beginning and end. Possibly from the Az̲kar al-abrār of Jalālī Aḥmadābādī.
6. leaves 34a-97b: [Metaphysical and mystical poem in Urdu with Persian translation]. Original text overlined in red; with diagrams on leaves 36b-37b, 84a; incomplete at beginning and end.
7. leaves 98a-104b: [Part of a treatise on prayer]. Contains faṣl 7-13; incomplete at beginning and end.
8. leaf 105a: [Fragment containing verses].
Provenance
On leaf 1a, stamp of ʻUmar ibn Rasūl Khān Vurdī Mayjur, dated 1256 H [1840 or 1841]. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 148
Other title(s)
Kāristān.
کارستان.
OCLC
847754107
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