[IO Islamic 939] Siyar-al'ârifîn

Siyar-al'ârifîn. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 939 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 639 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 639 A shorter redaction of the same. This copy contains apparently the same thirteen biographies as the preceding one, but is much shorter in extent. It is dated the 7th of Shawwâl, A.H.1123 (fifth year of Bahâdurshâh׳s reign = A.D. 1711, Nov. 18), by Muḥammad Murâd Sulṭân Shâhî Ḳâdirî. No. 939, ff. 88, ll. 17; Shikasta, some pages supplied by another hand in careless Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten and slightly damaged throughout; size, 81/4 in. by 5 in.