[IO Islamic 1488] Persian and Rekhta Poetry

<ul> <li>Poetry-Album</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1758 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 1488 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span><strong>Miscellaneous Poetry in Persian, Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc;, Dakhn&icirc;, and Turkish, and Extracts in Verse and Prose (Nos. 1758-1772)</strong></span></p> <p><span>1758</span></p> <p><span>An album of Persian and Rekhta poetry, containing different collections in alphabetical arrangement, the proper order of the leaves being this: ff. 1-31, 88-150, 32-87, 151-229.</span></p> <p><span><em>First series</em></span><span>, on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-31 and 88-105: Persian ghazals and mukhammas&acirc;t by various poets, beginning, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>الحمد لذاته العلى الاعلى </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> النّعت لاسماء صفات الحُسْنى</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Second series</em></span><span>, on ff. 106</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-150</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 32</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-87</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: Persian rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s, arranged alphabetically, without any author</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s name, beginning, on fol. 106</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ياران </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و نصير نيستم هرزه درا</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>امّا حرفى حقّى ب</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ويم بشما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Third series</em></span><span>, on ff. 151</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-194</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: Rekhta ḳaṣidas, ghazals, mukhammas&acirc;t, etc.</span></p> <p><span><em>Fourth series</em></span><span>, on ff. 195</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-229: Persian miscellaneous poems, rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s by </span><span><em>Ḥ</em></span><span><em>ishmat</em></span><span> (Mu</span><span>ḥammad </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc;, pupil of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Abd-alghan&icirc;beg </span><span>Ḳ</span><span>ab&ucirc;l, who died A.H. 1139 was over thirty years in A.H. 1136), </span><span><em>B&icirc;dil</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1133), etc.; fards, </span><span>ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, ta</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>r&icirc;kh&acirc;t, ghazals, mathnaw&icirc;-baits, etc., on fol. 203</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> sq., by </span><span><em>N&acirc;</em></span><span><em>ṣir bin Khusrau</em></span><span> (died A.H. 481); Ḳizilbashkh&acirc;n </span><span><em>Umm&icirc;d</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1159), Shaikh </span><span><em>Ḥaz&icirc;n</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1180), </span><span><em>Ṣ&acirc;</em></span><span><span><em>&rsquo;</em></span></span><span><em>ib</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1088), </span><span><em>Ḥ</em></span><span><span><em>&acirc;fiż</em></span></span><span> (died A.H. 791), </span><span><em>Mukhliṣ K&acirc;sh&icirc;</em></span><span> (see No. 1687 above), </span><span><em>Fiṭrat</em></span><span> (died A.H. 1106), Shaikh </span><span><span><em>Niż&acirc;m&icirc;, Lu</em></span></span><span><em>ṭf </em></span><span><span><em>&lsquo;</em></span></span><span><em>Al&icirc;beg S&acirc;m&icirc;</em></span><span>, and other minor poets.</span></p> <p><span>Many pages left blank for later insertion of poems in their proper alphabetical place.</span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1488, ff. 229, ll. 9-12; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 7</span>^{<span>3/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>1/4</span>}<span> in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>