[IO Islamic 3057] تيپونامه

<ul> <li>T&icirc;p&ucirc;n&acirc;ma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1719 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 3057 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1719</span></p> <p><span>T&icirc;p&ucirc;n&acirc;ma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>تي</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ونامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A mathnaw&icirc;, composed in honour of the warlike exploits of T&icirc;p&ucirc; Sul</span><span>ṭ&acirc;n (see No. 1717 above), by Ghul&acirc;m Ḥ</span><span>asan, who (according to Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Litt</span><span>&eacute;r. Hindouie etc., i. p. 543) is identical with Ḥasan </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Alikh&acirc;n of Kirm&acirc;n. He wrote this poem at Tip&ucirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s request, and finished it the 25th of Ramaḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, Aug. 12), see the last lines at the end. It is divided into forty-nine chapters, called </span><span><span><span><span><span>داستان</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The above title appears here on fol. 118</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 3, fol. 119</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, I. 2, fol. 120</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, I. 3 ab infra, and fol. 206</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 4 ab infra: </span><span><span><span><span><span>كه تي</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و نامه است اين نام مشهور</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The heading of the forty-ninth or last d&acirc;st&acirc;n gives the title as </span><span><span><span><span><span>شه نامه بنام تي</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و سلطان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(the same in No. 1721 below); on fol. 119</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 2 ab infra appears as designation </span><span><span><span><span><span>فتح نام</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>نامدار باسم </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ادشاه سلطان تي</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و بهادر</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The mathnaw&icirc; is commonly styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>فتح نام</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تي</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و سلطان</span></span></span></span></span><span>. Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ب</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ويم حمد ربّ العالمين است</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>ضيا بخشنده ايمان ما و طين است</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Dated the 14th of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>dah, A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1807, Jan. 23). A similar, but less extensive mathnaw&icirc; in Rekhta verses, celebrating the exploits of T&icirc;p&ucirc; Sulṭ&acirc;n and composed by the same Ghul&acirc;m Ḥasan in twenty-three d&acirc;st&acirc;n, is preserved in No. 2499 of the India Office Collection. Garcin de Tassy, loc. cit., seems only to have known this Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; version, but not the longer and more important Persian one.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3057, ff. 113-206, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in. by 5</span>^{<span>1/2</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>