[IO Islamic 3168] Persian Anthology

<ul> <li>Persian-Anthology</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1746 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 3168 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1746</span></p> <p><span>Persian anthology.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 73</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; tark&icirc;bbands, on fol. 83</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; a ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;dah in honour of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;, on fol. 89</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; another series of </span><span>ḳ</span><span>a</span><span>ṣ&icirc;das, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, tark&icirc;bbands, and mukhammas&acirc;t, on fol. 91</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; a collection of ghazals, arranged alphabetically, on ff. 104</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-152</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, on fol. 153</span>^{<span>a </span>}<span>sq.</span><span> </span><span> A</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>قصيد</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تأريخ من تصنيف غلام مصطفى سخن كه از هر مصراعش تأريخ برآيد در تعريف تعمير مكان كلان واقع</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>نانك رام كه بخدمت مهاراجه بهادر </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ذرانيده </span></span></span></span></span><span>. on ff. 156</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-158</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>,</span></p> <p><span>The poems collected here are mostly by modern poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, among them some by H&acirc;tif, that is Sayyid A</span><span>ḥmad of Iṣfah&acirc;n, who died A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1188). The chief portion of this collection was written A.H. 1180=A.D. 1766, 1767 (see fol. 98</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 5).</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the first ḳaṣ&icirc;dah, on fol. 73</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: </span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى ز </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لزار جلالت لال</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>شمس الضّحى</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>وز خمستان جمالت ساغرى بدر الدّجى</span></span></span></p> <p><span>On fol. 73</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> a </span><span><span><span><span><span>خطبه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>in prose. The margin of many pages is covered with additional poetry.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3168, ff. 73-158, 2 coll., each ll. 15 (a few pages with oblique lines); </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; ff. 156-158 and a few pages here and there added by other hands; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>1/2</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>