[IO Islamic 95] غزليّات نسيم

<ul> <li>Ghazaliyy&acirc;t-i-Nas&icirc;m</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1734 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 95 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><br><br></p> <p><span><em>Poets whose lifetime cannot be fixed, and anonymous poems.</em></span></p> <p><span>(Nos. 1734-1738.)</span></p> <p><span>1734</span></p> <p><span>Ghazaliyy&acirc;t-i-Nas&icirc;m (</span><span><span><span><span><span>غزليّات نسيم</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, by a poet with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Nas&icirc;m, who cannot be identified. The following poets with this takhalluṣ are mentioned in the various tadhkiras:</span></p> <p><span>1.Maul&acirc;na Nas&icirc;m of Astr&acirc;b&acirc;d (Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 1182; Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 2773, Bodleian Cat., col. 386; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 130); he must have lived about A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1592).</span></p> <p><span>2.Sayyid Ghul&acirc;m-Nab&icirc;, a descendant of Sayyid Muḥy&icirc;-ald&icirc;n </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abd-alḳ&acirc;dir J&icirc;l&acirc;n&icirc; (Makhzan-alghar&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>ib, No. 2919, Bodleian Cat., col. 390; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 132).</span></p> <p><span>3.B&ucirc;w&acirc;ḳbeg (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 131).</span></p> <p><span>4.Sayyid Nas&icirc;m of Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z (ib., p. 662, No. 133). </span></p> <p><span>5.Nas&icirc;m-i-Ramm&acirc;l (ib., p. 662, No. 134).</span></p> <p><span>6.Mirz&acirc; Aḥmad Nas&icirc;m (ib., p. 672, No. 98).</span></p> <p><span>7.Mirz&acirc; Ghul&acirc;m </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; of Amrohah (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 160, l. 9), lived before A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1760, 1761).</span></p> <p><span>At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 89</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, a ḳaṣ&icirc;dah in honour of the late poet J&acirc;m&icirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>قصيده در مدح حضرت مخدومى جامى عليه الرّحمة</span></span></span></span></span><span>), and some mathnaw&icirc;-baits on fol. 92</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>. on ff. 93</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 94</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> short fragments of two prose-treatises are found, the first of which, styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>نصائح الملوك</span></span></span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>advices to kings,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> is divided into forty b&acirc;bs, each of which contains four good advices, and is identical with the </span><span><span><span><span><span>رسال</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تحفة الملوك در نصيحت بند و بست ملك</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, described in the Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 45. Beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>الحمد لله ربّ العالمين </span></span></span></span></span><span>.... </span><span><span><span><span><span>امّا بعد اين رساله ايست كه حكما از كتب قدما اختصار كرده اند الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>A lacuna between ff. 93 and 94. </span></p> <p><span>No. 95, ff. 79-94, 2 coll., each ll. 15; quite illegible Shikasta; size, 8&frac14; in. by 4&frac34; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>