[IO Islamic 464] لعل و گوهر

<ul> <li>La&rsquo;l-u-Gauhar</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1717 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 464 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1717</span></p> <p><span>La</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>l u Gauhar (</span><span><span><span><span><span>لعل و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>وهر</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The love-story of La</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>l and Gauhar (ruby and pearl), a mathnaw&icirc; based upon older sources and completed A.H. 1192 (A.D. 1778), by </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>asan &lsquo;Al&icirc; </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Izzat, who was commissioned to write this poem by Naww&acirc;b Fat</span><span>ḥ </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;kh&acirc;n Bah&acirc;dur, better known as T&icirc;p&ucirc; Sul</span><span>ṭ&acirc;n (who succeeded his father Ḥ</span><span>aidar </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;kh&acirc;n in the government of Mais&ucirc;r, A.H. 1197=A.D. 1782).</span></p> <p><span>Beginning, on fol. 8</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>الهى ده زعين لطف و رافت</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ب</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لزارى </span></span></span></span></span><span>(</span><span><span><span><span><span>ب</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لزار </span></span></span></span></span><span>read</span><span>) </span><span><span><span><span><span>كلام</span></span></span><span><span><span>م</span></span></span><span><span><span> بوى الفت</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>It concludes on fol. 69</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; the date appears in the last verse but two:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>ز هجرت يكهزار وصد و هشتاد</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>كه بود اِثنَا عَشَر بالاى تعداد</span></span></span></p> <p><span>A version of the same story and with the same title (</span><span><span><span><span><span>قصّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>لعل و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>وهر</span></span></span></span></span><span>) in Dakhn&icirc; verses is preserved in No. 2495, f. 83</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-97</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> of the India Office Library.</span></p> <p><span>On ff. 1-5</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> there are written by another hand some mystical tracts, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بدانكه اين رسال</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>دم از خواصّ الحيات نوشته مى شود&lsquo; آفتاب و ماهتاب هر </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه تأثير الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ff. 6 and 7 are left blank. At the end there are some more blank leaves, but on the last two leaves the first twenty-nine verses of the mathnaw&icirc; are repeated.</span></p> <p><span>No. 464, ff. 69, 2 centre-columns, each ll. 9, and a margin-column, ll. 16; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in. by 6</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>