[IO Islamic 785] Short Treatises

Treatises. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 723 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 785 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 723 Two short treatises on Makkah, its topography, peculiarities and spiritual influences, based chiefly on Ḳurân verses and traditions; they are attached to the first copy of ׳Abd-alḥaḳḳ bin Saif-aldîn alturk aldihlawî׳s جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب (No. 720 above). The first is in Persian, and begins on fol. 201a: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و العاقبة للمتّقين و الصلوة و السّلام على رسوله افضل الحقّ سيّدنا محمّد و آله و اصحابه اجمعين بدان ايّدك الله تعالى الخ. The second is in Arabic, and begins on fol. 210b:بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم ........ و صحبه اجمعين كتاب الحسن بن الحسن البقرى الخ. No. 785, ff. 201-215, ll. 16; careless Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten: size, 91/8 in. by 43/4 in.