[IO Islamic 8149] كيمياى سعادت

Kîmiyâ-i-Sa’âdat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1787 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 8149 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1787

The same.

‘Unwan I, on fol. 5a in No. 3149 ; II, on fol. 24a ; III, on fol. 37a ; IV, on fol. 42b.

Rukn I, on fol. 69b ; II, on fol. 147b ; III, on fol. 1b in No. 3150 ; IV, on fol. 168b.

The first volume and the greater part of the second are written by Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ ; the first rukn, the last twenty-five leaves of which are supplied by another last twenty-five leaves of which are supplied by another hand, is dated at Banâras, A.H. 1173 (A.D. 1759, 1760).

No. 8149, ff. 295 ; No. 3150, ff. 363, ll. 15 ; clear Nasta’lîḳ ; ff. 43-68 in the first volume, and ff. 288-363 in the second, are added by two different hands; splendid binding in green and gold ; size, 9½ in. by 5¾ in.