Ṣûfism and Ethics [IO Bijapur 386,387]

Ṣûfism and Ethics.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 386,387 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 630 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

630.

B 386, 387. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 696.

Twenty-nine and thirty lines in a page.

The same work, from chapter 276 to chapter 557.

Written, like the preceding MS., by Zain b. ‘Abdallah Muḳaibil. Dated Bijâpûr (ببلد بدجافور المعروفة من ارض الدكن) , Monday , 10th Rabî ‘I., 1097. Revised. On foll. 428-430 are drawings, representing Paradise, Hell, etc. A blank on fol. 72 is intended for another drawing.

This volume was subsequently divided into two, which are described as the second and third parts (جزء) of the work. The latter begins with fol. 359. Both of them are injured at beginning and end.