[IO Islamic 1963] مرصاد العباد من المبداء الى المعاد

Mirṣâd-al’ibâd min almabdâ ’ilâ-alma’âd

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1805 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 1963 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1805

Another copy of the same.

Beginning, on fol. 8b:الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و الصّلوة على سيّد المرسلين محمّد و آله اجمعين ׳ حمد بى حدّ و ثناء بى عدّ پادشاهى را كه وجود هر موجود نتيجۀ جود اوست الخ.

The author׳s name, together with the date of composition, appears on fol. 234b, ll. 1-3.

Bâb I, on fol. 11b; II, on fol. 23b; III, on fol.55a; IV, on fol. 154a ; V, on fol. 180a. Collated. No date.

The transcriber׳s name is given, on fol.8a, as Taḳî-aldîn Muḥammad al-shûshtarî, who bought the original copy, from which he made the present one, in Kashmîr; among the various entries of former owners on the same page there is one, stating , that this copy was bought the 9th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616, Oct. 20).

On ff. 1-7 there is written by another hand in Naskhî the whole of Sûrah 36 of the Ḳurân (سورة يس), followed by a few detached verses from other Sûras, beginning with Sûrah 3, v. 1.

No. 1963, ff. 235, ll. 17 (on ff. 8b-235b); Nasta’lîḳ (except on ff. 1-7); a little worm-eaten and water stained; size, 91/2 in. by 53/8 in.