[IO Islamic 486] مُرَقّع

<ul> <li>R&acirc;z&icirc;-Muraḳḳa</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1638 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 486 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1638</span></p> <p><span>Mura</span><span>ḳḳa</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مُرَقّع</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Patchwork or scrap-book, a mystical mathnaw&icirc; on the chief points of </span><span>Ṣ</span><span>&ucirc;fism, illustrated by short tales, somewhat in the style of Jal&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n R&ucirc;mi</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s mathnaw&icirc;, by the same </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;</span><span>ḳilkh&acirc;n R&acirc;z&icirc;, beginning:</span></p> <p><span>(Pertsch</span><span> Sprenger</span><span> </span><span><span><span><span><span>فى العمام</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>;) </span><span><span><span><span><span>ايّها السّاقى اغثنى فى الغمام المنام </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>الكرام</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(Pertsch and Sprenger </span><span><span><span><span><span>الكاس</span></span></span></span></span><span>) </span><span><span><span><span><span>من جرعة كاس</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(read </span><span><span><span><span><span>اسقنى</span></span></span></span></span><span>) </span><span><span><span><span><span>اشقنى </span></span></span><span> </span></span></span></p> <p><span>Sarkhwush in his tadhkirah </span><span><span><span><span><span>كلمات الشّعرا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 111) says: </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>it may be considered as a poetical version of the </span><span><span><span><span><span>امواج خوبى</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> but to what book does that title apply ?</span></p> <p><span>No date. The transcriber was M&icirc;r Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usain al</span><span>ḥusain&icirc;.</span></p> <p><span>No. 486, ff. 156, 2 coll. each ll. 13; slightly injured and worm-eaten here and there; size, 8</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in. by 5 in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>