[IO Islamic 2710] انورنامه

<ul> <li>Anwarn&acirc;ma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1716 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 2710 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1716</span></p> <p><span>Anwarn&acirc;ma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>انورنامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A mathnaw&icirc;, celebrating the exploits of Naww&acirc;b Anwarkh&acirc;n (or Anwar-ald&icirc;nkh&acirc;n), the ruler of the Carnatic, who died A.H. 1162 (A.D. 1749), by M&icirc;r Mu</span><span>ḥammad Isma</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;</span><span>lkh&acirc;n, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Abjad&icirc;, who had been tutor of Anwarkh&acirc;n</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s son and successor, Naww&acirc;b Mu</span><span>ḥammad </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Umdat-almulk (A.H. 1163-1210=A.D. 1750-1795), and who dedicated this work to him, for which he received 6,700 rupees, and was, A.H. 1189 (A.D. 1775, 1776), appointed king of poets; comp. No. 501 above, where the </span><span><span><span><span><span>توزك والاجاهى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>is described, a special history of the Carnatic, based on this Anwarn&acirc;ma, with a eulogium of Abjad&icirc;, by Munsh&icirc; Burh&acirc;n (or Burh&acirc;nkh&acirc;n) bin </span><span>Ḥasan, who completed the muḳaddimah and the first daftar A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786). This mathnaw&icirc; was composed in A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1760, 1761), see fol. 276</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, last verse; other copies of the same are noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 944 and 945, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 308. </span></p> <p><span>Abjad&icirc; wrote besides a Persian d&icirc;w&acirc;n, containing ghazals and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 307), and a Rekhta d&icirc;w&acirc;n, likewise containing ghazals and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, with a few </span><span>ḳiṭ&rsquo;as at the end (preserved in No. 2512 of the India Office Collection, dated A.H. 1192, 15th of Muḥarram=A.D. 1778, Febr. 13).</span></p> <p><span>This mathnaw&icirc; begins:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>خدایا توئی شاه فرمانروا</span></span></span><span>-</span><span><span><span>توئی آفرینندۀ ما سوا</span></span></span></p> <p><span>The story itself begins, on fol.</span><span> </span><span>10</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, with this heading:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>در بيان آغاز داستان انور نامه و ذكر رياست و محاربات نوّاب انور الدّينخان الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Various readings and occasional glosses of particular interest on the margin.</span></p> <p><span>No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2710, ff. 276, 2 coll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 5</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>