[IO Islamic 1234] انتخاب كيمياى سعادت

Intikhâb-i-Kîmiyâ-i-Sa’âdat

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1791 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 1234 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1791

Intikhâb-i-Kîmiyâ-i-Sa’âdat (انتخاب كيمياى سعادت).

Extracts from the preface of the Kîmiyâ-i-Sa’âdat, made by Khwâjah Afḍal-aldîn Kâshî (who died A.H. 707=A.D. 1307, 1308 , see further below, No. 1812).

Beginning:خواجه افضل الدّين كاشى از كيمياى سعادت كلماتى چند انتخاب كرده است تا طالبان معرفت حق را سودمند بود ‘ چنين فرمايد الخ .

‘Unwân I, on fol. 287a ; II, on fol. 290a ; III, on fol. 291b ; IV , on fol. 292a margin-column.

Dated the 11th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1180 (A.D. 1766, Aug. 17), by Abû Ṭâlib alḥusainî. On fol. 293b, an additional saying of Afḍal kâshî, on the three necessary duties of Ṣûfîs.

No. 1234, ff. 287a-293, ll. 14, and another column on the margin, ll. 26 ; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta ; size, 8 in. by 43/8 in.