[IO Islamic 1050] Poems

<ul> <li>Poems</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1759 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 1050 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1759</span></p> <p><span>Short mathnaw&icirc;s in Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc;, Dakhn&icirc;, and Persian.</span></p> <p><span>1.Bahl&ucirc;l-i-</span><span>Ṣ&acirc;diḳ</span><span> (</span><span><span><span><span><span>بهلول صادق</span></span></span></span></span><span>), in Rekhta verses, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>سنا يك روز مين صاحب زبان سين الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>2.Waf&acirc;tn&acirc;ma-i-Paighambar (</span><span><span><span><span><span>وفات نام</span></span></span><span><span><span>ۀ پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يغمبر</span></span></span></span></span><span>), </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>the story of the prophet</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s death,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> in Dakhun&icirc; verses, on fol. 8</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>يو دنياتو فانى عجب باغ هى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>3.</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&Icirc;s&acirc; u Kallah (</span><span><span><span><span><span>عيسى و كلّه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), in Persian verses, on fol. 22</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>نا</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هان روزى زتقدير خدا الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Attached to this mathnaw&icirc; and written by the same hand is a </span><span><em>Persian story</em></span><span> in prose, the story of </span><span><em>Sulṭ&acirc;n Sanjar</em></span><span> (died A.H. 552=A.D. 1157), on ff. 25</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-27, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حكايت سلطان سنجر ماضى السّلطان الاعظم و الخاقان المعظّم سلطان سنجر الماضى ابن سلطان</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>ملكشاه رحمة الله عليه الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1050, ff. 27, ll. 10 (on ff. 1-7) in Shikasta; ll. 13 (on ff. 8-21) in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; ll. 15 (on ff. 22-27), also in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, by another hand; size, 7</span>^{<span>5/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>3/4</span>}<span> in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>