[IO Islamic 2668] بختيار نامه

<ul> <li>Bakhty&acirc;rn&acirc;ma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1726 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 2668&nbsp; here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1726</span></p> <p><span>Bakhty&acirc;rn&acirc;ma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>بختيار نامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A very modern adaptation of the famous Bakhty&acirc;rn&acirc;ma, see No. 859, 2 above, and Bodleian Cat., No. 475, 3 (col. 436), in Persian verse, made A.H. 1210 (see fol. 142</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 2)=A.D. 1795, 1796, by Kadkhud&acirc; Marzub&acirc;n (see the last verse but one of the poem).</span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بنام خداوند ربّ جليل </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> كه آتش </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لستان كند بر خليل</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Copied in the same year (undoubtedly the author&rsquo;</span><span>s own copy), in the month Sha&rsquo;b&acirc;n, see the colophon on fol. 142</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ff. 143</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-154</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> contain another Persian poem, by the same poet, and composed as well as copied in the same year 1210, styled: </span><span><span><span><span><span>قصّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>خواجه سعيد و خواجه مسعود بازر</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ان و حكايت عوض الخير و حكايت س</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span> و عفريت</span></span></span></span></span><span>. Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>ابتدا مى كنم بنام خدا</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>آن خدائى كه هست بى همتا</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2668, ff. 154, 2 coll., each ll. 18-20; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 12</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in. by 7</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>