Islamic Traditions [IO Islamic 1179]

Tradition. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1179 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 140 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 140. 1179. Size 81/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 18. Nine lines in a page. The same Hundred Sayings of ‘Alî, with another paraphrase in Persian couplets. Beginning: هذه مائة کلمة من کلام امیر المومنین علی علیه السلام گفت شیر خدای عز و جل هادی خلق و مقتدای انام باد بر جان او فزون از حد هر زمان بیگران درود و سلام The same paraphrase is found in the autographed edition of Major Yule, Edinburgh, 1832. A plain copy. Each page contains three Arabic lines, with the second half of one couplet above, two complete couplets between, and the first half of a fourth couplet below them. Inscribed on the title-page: صد کلمۀ حضرت مرتضی علی کرم الله وجهه ورضی الله عنه مترجم منظوم از کتب قدیم در سلوک و اخلاق. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang, A. H. 1174. [Tippu.]