[IO Islamic 2087] بياض

<ul> <li>Bay&acirc;ḍ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1745 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 2087 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1745</span></p> <p><span>Bay&acirc;</span><span>ḍ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>بياض</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>A similar album of Persian lyrics, arranged in forty chapters according to the topics of which they treat, by an anonymous compiler.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the preface, in prose, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>س</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اس فراوان و ستايش بى </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ايان مر حضرت ذو الجلال را كه ن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ارند</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>لوح الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Index of the forty chapters, on ff. 3</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-4</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the first poem of the first chapter </span><span>(</span><span><span><span><span><span>فى التّوحيد</span></span></span></span></span><span>): </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى بصفّ صنع تو </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ايان شده </span></span></span><span><span><span>چر</span></span></span><span><span><span>خ برين الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>The second chapter, on fol. 9</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, is headed: </span><span><span><span><span><span>فى مدح النّبى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>; the third, on fol. 12</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>فى احاديث النّبوى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>; the fourth, on fol. 13</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>فى المواعظ و النّصائح</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, and so on.</span></p> <p><span>The collection ends on fol. 91</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>. Ff. 92-108 are filled with vey roughly written extracts, both in prose and verse, by different hands.</span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2087, ff. 108, 2 coll., each ll. 17; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, on ff. 1-91; Shikasta, by various hands, often illegible, on ff. 92-108; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/2</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>