[IO Islamic 2097] بهرام و گلندام

<ul> <li>Bahr&acirc;m-u-Guland&acirc;m</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1697 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 2097 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1697</span></p> <p><span>Bahr&acirc;m u Guland&acirc;m (</span><span><span><span><span><span>بهرام و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لندام</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The love-story of prince Bahr&acirc;m and Guland&acirc;m, a romantic mathnaw&icirc; which seems to be identical with Am&icirc;n</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s epopee of the same title, noticed in Rieu ii. p. 877</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>. It opens here with seven admonitions (</span><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ند</span></span></span></span></span><span>), on fol. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, thus: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بخواهم </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>فتنت هفت </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ند موزون الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>The story itself begins, on fol. 4</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, with the following chapter: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بخشيدن شاه كشور تاج و جهان </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يمائى به بهرام</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Rieu</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s copy is dated A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734, 1735), the present one the 18th of Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-alth&acirc;n&icirc;, A.H. 1224 (A.D. 1809, July 31). A version of the same story in Pusht&ucirc; verses by a poet with the takhalluṣ Fayy&acirc;ḍ is preserved in No. 3249 of the India Office Collection.</span></p> <p><span>It is written in stanzas of unequal length, each of which is a ghazal, somewhat like B&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;kh&acirc;n</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s </span><span><span><span><span><span>مجنون و ليلى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, see Z. D. M. G. xvi. P. 789; another version in the G&ucirc;r&acirc;n dialect of Eastern Kurdist&acirc;n is described in Rieu ii. p. 734; a third in Dakhn&icirc; verses by Ṭab</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc; is noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 639 and 643; the last-mentioned was composed A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670, 1671).</span></p> <p><span>No. 2097, ff. 113, 2 coll., each ll. 12; large and distinct </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8&frac14; in. by 5&frac34; in.</span><span> </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>