[IO Islamic 2395] طلسم حيرت

<ul> <li>Ṭilism-i-ḥairat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1684 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 2395 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1684</span></p> <p><span>Ṭ</span><span>ilism-i-</span><span>ḥairat (</span><span><span><span><span><span>طلسم حيرت</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The magic of amazement, an allegorical mathnaw&icirc; by B&icirc;dil (styled on the fly-leaf </span><span><span><span><span><span>نظم حيرت</span></span></span></span></span><span>), composed according to Sprenger, Catal., p. 379, A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713), and beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بنام آن كه دل كاشان</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>اوست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>نفس كرده متاع خان</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>اوست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>No date; but on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 105</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> there are seals of </span><span>Ḳ&acirc;sim </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; M&icirc;rkh&acirc;n, with the date A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777), see above, No. 1680.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2395, ff. 105, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clumsy Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, often quite like Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 4&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>