[IO Islamic 2480] قصّۀ چهار درويش

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćah&acirc;r darw&icirc;sh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 739 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2480 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>739</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćah&acirc;r darw&icirc;sh (قصّۀ چهار درويش).</p> <p>The Persian version of the story of the Sulṭ&acirc;n of R&ucirc;m, &Acirc;z&acirc;dbakhsh, his son Bakhty&acirc;r, and the four dervishes, popularly ascribed to the greatest Persian Poet of India, <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79065219/">Am&icirc;r Khusrau</a> of Dihl&icirc; , who died A.H. 725 (A.D. 1325), comp. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766">Bodleian Cat</a>., <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01bodluoft/page/212/mode/2up">No. 443</a>; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91025331/">Rieu</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3333583">ii</a>. p. <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi02brituoft/page/762/mode/2up">762</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Ferdinand_Mehren">A. F. Mehren</a>, p. 32; [<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85149151/">Edward B.] Eastwick</a>, translation of the B&acirc;gh-o-Bah&acirc;r, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/163299906">Hertford, 1852</a>, p. vii.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شكر شكن الخ.</p> <p><em>D&acirc;st&acirc;n I</em>, story of the first Dervish, on fol. 6^a.</p> <p><em>D&acirc;st&acirc;n II</em>, story of the second Dervish, on fol. 32^b.</p> <p><em>D&acirc;st&acirc;n III</em>, story of the Sulṭ&acirc;n, on fol. 56^b.</p> <p><em>D&acirc;st&acirc;n IV</em>, story of the third Dervish (here called درويش چهارم by mistake), on fol. 100^b.</p> <p>D&acirc;st&acirc;n V, story of the fourth Dervish, on fol. 120^b.</p> <p><em>Epilogue</em> or final story (داستان اخير), on fol. 135^b.</p> <p>The book ends on fol. 141^a; the remaining two pages and a half are filled with a detailed colophon, in which the transcriber, who does not mention his name, gives a short historical account of the circumstances under which he made this copy, in A.H. 1188, the sixteenth year of Sh&acirc;h &lsquo;&Acirc;lam&rsquo;s reign (A.D. 1774, 1775).</p> <p>Bibliotheca&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a></p> <p>No. 2480, ff. 142, ll. 18-19, but the greater number of pages are written in diagonal lines; Shikasta; size, 8^3/8 in. by 3^1/2 in.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_20198">link</a> to other manuscript copies of this work.]</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>