[IO Islamic 1900] مجموعۀ اشعار

<ul> <li>Poem-Collection</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1753 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 1900 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1753</span></p> <p><span>A short, but very curious collection of </span><span>Ṣ&ucirc;fic poetry, beginning with a series of short poems in honour of God, Muḥammad, the T&acirc;bi</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;n, etc., arranged in the following manner: each part or hymn opens with a certain number of short mathnaw&icirc;s (each comprising two baits), arranged alphabetically according to the end-rhyme; after that follows a </span><span><span><span><span><span>مثنوئ مطلق</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>which falls out of the alphabetical order (also comprising two baits), and then an equal number of strophes, each of which contains just as many hemistichs as there are mathnaw&icirc;s belonging to that particular hymn; for instance, the first hymn on the unity of God consists of three mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>ب</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>ت</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>respectively, of an intermediate </span><span><span><span><span><span>مثنوى مطلق</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and three muthallath&acirc;t; the second hymn on the Prophet contains four mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>ث</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ج</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ح</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>خ</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and of four murabba</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&acirc;t, separated from the mathnaw&icirc;s again by the </span><span><span><span><span><span>مثنوى مطلق</span></span></span></span></span><span>, as is the case in all the following hymns; the third hymn has five mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>د</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ذ</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ر</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ز</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>س</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and five mukhammas&acirc;t; the fourth has six mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>ش</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ص</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ض</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ط</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ظ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>and </span><span><span><span><span><span>ع</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and six musaddas&acirc;t; the fifth has seven mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>غ</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ف</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ق</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ك</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>ل</span></span></span></span></span><span>,</span><span><span><span><span><span>م</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>ن</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and seven musabba</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&acirc;t; the sixth (and last) has three mathnaw&icirc;s, rhyming in </span><span><span><span><span><span>و</span></span></span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>ه</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>ى</span></span></span></span></span><span>, but no corresponding strophes. This series of hymns is followed by a variety of other poems on spiritual and pantheistic matters, ghazals, mathnaw&icirc;s, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, </span><span>ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, and one ḳaṣidah.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>الحمد لله ربّ العالمين </span></span></span></span></span><span>...... </span><span><span><span><span><span>اسم الله ذات رحمانرا </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> اسم اعظم صفات سبحانرا المثنويّات المُقيّد فى الالف و الباى و التاى فى التّوحيد بالحمد و الثّناء و المناجات العرفانى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No date. Collated.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1900, ff. 17, coll., each ll. 19; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in. by 5</span>^{<span>1/2</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>