[IO Islamic 2339] مناجات عبدالله انصارى

Munâjât-i-’Abdallâh Anṣârî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1779 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 2339 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1779

Munâjât-i-’Abdallâh Anṣârî (مناجات عبدالله انصارى).

Pious invocations to God and exhortations to Ṣûfîs, by the same ‘Abdallâh Anṣârî, in prose mixed with verses, and beginning:

اى زدردت بيدلانرا بوى درمان آمده

ياد تو مر عاشقانرا مؤنس جان آمده

It is commonly styled رسالۀ خواجه عبدالله انصارى ; see Rieu i. p. 35a; G. Flügel iii. p. 497 ; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 254 ; different from the present مناجات seems to be a tract of the same title, noticed in W.Pertsch, No. 9, 15 ; Berlin Cat., p. 3, No. 4 ; and Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. iv. p. 349 ; comp. also Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 129 ; and Notices et Extraits, xii. p. 352. A Turkish paraphrase of, and commentary on a similar work of Anṣârî (‘advice to Dervishes’) by Nauras, completed A.H. 1172 (A.D. 1758, 1759), is described in G. Flügel iii. p. 486.

The present copy of the Munâjât is dated the 9th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748, Jan. 10), by Muḥammad Mahdî, the son of Ḥâji ‘Abd-alhâdî. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2339, ff. 10, ll. 17 ; small, but distinct Nasta’lîḳ ; illuminated frontispiece ; size, 83/4 in. by 43/4 in.