[IO Islamic 320] خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال

<ul> <li>Khul&acirc;ṣa-i-Laṭ&acirc;&rsquo;if-alkhay&acirc;l</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1739 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 320 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>Persian Anthologies and Albums of Persian Poetry (Nos. 1739-1757).</span></p> <p><span>1739</span></p> <p><span>Khul&acirc;</span><span>ṣa-i-Laṭ&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>if-alkhay&acirc;l (</span><span><span><span><span><span>خلاص</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>لطائف الخيال</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The revised and shorter edition of Mu</span><span>ḥammad Ṣ&acirc;liḥ</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s anthology of Persian poets, arranged in form of an alphabetical d&icirc;w&acirc;n, each specimen being headed by the name of the author (completed A.H. 1104=A.D. 1692, 1693, see the chronogram on fol. 16</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, last line), by Muḥammad Naṣ&icirc;r, with the takhalluṣ Nuṣrat, who A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744) added to the original work a preface and two detailed indices, the first containing a list of the real names of the poets, quoted in the anthology, the second a list of their takhalluṣes, both in alphabetical order. A larger fragment of Muḥammad Ṣ&acirc;liḥ</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s original work, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>لطائف الخيال</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1143; comp. also Bland, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. P. 168.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى از تو بلند تارك و تاج سخن </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash; </span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>وهر زتو يافت بحر موّاج سخن الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the </span><span><em>first</em></span><span> index, on fol. 5</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; of the </span><span><em>second</em></span><span>, on fol. 11</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Another short introduction, on fol. 15</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the </span><span><span><span><span><span>لطائف الخيال</span></span></span></span></span><span>, on fol. 16</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>حبّذا زين كتاب ف</span></span></span><span><span><span>رّ</span></span></span><span><span><span>خ فال </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> كه بود </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لستان اهل كمال</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>The whole anthology is divided into thirty-one </span><span><span><span><span><span>جزء</span></span></span></span></span><span>, copied (according to the notes on the margin) by different persons, as Mad&icirc;nabeg, Fa</span><span>ḳ&icirc;r Muḥammad, etc., but in a tolerably equal handwriting. A large lacuna after fol. 119.</span></p> <p><span>No. 320, ff. 237, 4 coll., each ll. 25; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, sometimes resembling Shikasta; size, 14</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in. by 10</span>^{<span>1/4</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>