[IO Islamic 735] مصطفى نامه

<ul> <li>Muṣṭaf&acirc;-n&acirc;ma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1737 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 735 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1737</span></p> <p><span>Mu</span><span>ṣṭaf&acirc;-n&acirc;ma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مصطفى نامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A very long and curious mathnaw&icirc;, a rhymed Mu</span><span>ḥammadan history from Muḥammad down to the first Sulṭ&acirc;ns of the Ghaznawide and Salj&ucirc;ḳ dynasties, together with biographies of famous Saints and Shaikhs, by an anonymous author.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>بنام خداوند فتح وفلاح</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>كنم مصطفى نامه را افتتاح</span></span></span></p> <p><span>This copy is apparently the first rough sketch of the poet, as not only many blanks are found, but also a great number of unfinished single verses, of which often only the first word is written. Moreover the arrangement of the whole poem is rather confused; in the last part, for instance, after the history of the Khal&icirc;fs, the S&acirc;</span><span>manide, Ghaznawide, and Salj&ucirc;ḳ rulers the author gives us a detailed story of Moses. It breaks off in the beginning of an incomplete bait, the initial word of which is </span><span><span><span><span><span>كنون</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No. 735, ff. 485, 4 coll., each ll. 31; clear </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two pages richly illuminated; size, 14&frac14; in. by 9 in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>