[IO Islamic 58] اشعار

<ul> <li>Poems</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1752 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 58 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1752</span></p> <p><span>Poems by prince Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h.</span></p> <p><span>A collection of Persian and Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; poems, ghazals, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, and mathnaw&icirc;-baits, by the same prince Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h, entitled on the fly-leaf: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بياض عنايتى مرشد زاده</span></span></span></span></span><span>. This title seems to be written by mere mistake on the fly-leaf of this MS., as it properly belongs to the preceding album, whereas the title given to that collection, </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Poems by the prince Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> refers to this copy. That this collection contains the prince</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s own poetry, is proved by the takhallu</span><span>ṣ </span><span><em>Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;r</em></span><span>, which very often occurs.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>Persian lyrical poems, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يش من تحف</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>نوكار كهن هر دو يكيست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كوه و صحرا و كف دشت و </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>من هر دو يكيست</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; lyrical poems, on fol. 9</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>خود بخود </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و يار همسى</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>آج سك</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>انى لكا الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>A Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 62</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, headed: </span><span><span><span><span><span>مثنوئ </span></span></span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>شهرزاد</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عالم ميرزا جوان بخت جهاندار شاه دام اقباله</span></span></span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>and beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>الهى رك</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه م</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هى آوار</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عشق </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> ميرى دل كوكر آتش</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ار</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عشق</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>This mathnaw&icirc; concludes on fol. 71</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and is followed on ff. 73</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-86</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> by another Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; mathnaw&icirc;, or rather a collection of mathnaw&icirc;-baits, by the emperor Sh&acirc;h </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lam, as the following heading seems to imply:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ارشاد حضور </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر نور شاه عالم پادشاه غازى خلّد الله ملكه و سلطانه</span></span></span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Copied by Mu</span><span>ḥammad </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; of Mashhad.</span></p> <p><span>No. 58, ff. 86, 8 baits on every page; clear Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9 in. by 4</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in.; in outward appearance both M</span><span>SS., Nos. 57 and 58, are quite alike.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>