[IO Islamic 2559] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1761 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 2559 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1761</span></p> <p><span>Miscellaneous Persian and Turkish poetry.</span></p> <p><span>This MS., the leaves of which are misplaced to an almost bewildering extent, contains:</span></p> <p><span>1.On ff. 1-8, 95, 9-17, 23-52, 93, 94, 96-143:</span></p> <p><span>A </span><span><em>Turkish</em></span><span> adaptation and amplification of Shabistar&icirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s </span><span><em>Gulshan-i-r&acirc;z</em></span><span>, by a Turkish poet Sh&icirc;raz&icirc; (</span><span><span><span><span><span>كتاب </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لشن راز ترجم</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>شيرازى</span></span></span></span></span><span>), incomplete at the end with probable lacunas between the various fragmentary pieces, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>نفس اوردى نفس رحمان نسيمى</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>معطّر اولِد جان و دل حريمى</span></span></span></p> <p><span>2.On ff. 144-173 and 19-22 : the Persian original of the </span><span><em>Gulshan-i-r&acirc;z</em></span><span>, with the omission of the first thirteen verses, beginning, on fol. 144</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> : </span><span><span><span><span><span>جهان و خلق امر اينجا يكى شد الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>, corresponding to ver. 14 in Whinfield</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s edition, London, Tr</span><span>&uuml;</span><span>bner, 1880. On the Gulshan-i-r&acirc;z (composed A.H. 717=A.D. 1317), by Ma</span><span>ḥm&ucirc;d Shabistar&icirc; (died A.H. 720=A.D. 1320), see Bodleian Cat., No. 1260, and further down under </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Ṣ</span><span>&ucirc;fism</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> in this Cat.</span></p> <p><span>3.On ff. 18 and 53-86</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: a large fragment (end of the second daftar) of Far&icirc;d-ald&icirc;n </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>A</span><span>ṭṭ&acirc;r </span><span><em>Jaw&acirc;hir-aldh&acirc;t</em></span><span> (</span><span><span><span><span><span>جواهر الذّات</span></span></span></span></span><span>), comp. fol. 86</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 9: </span><span><span><span><span><span>كنون عطّار </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>فتى جوهرى ذات الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>; see No. 1031, 17; No. 1033, 2; No. 1035, 2; and Nos. 1046 and 1047 above.</span></p> <p><span>4.Ff. 86</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 87</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>: a few Persian </span><span>ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s.</span></p> <p><span>5.Ff. 87</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> -92</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 174</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-183</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>: N&acirc;ṣir bin Khusrau</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s </span><span><em>R&ucirc;shan&acirc;</em></span><span><span><em>&rsquo;</em></span></span><span><em>&icirc;n&acirc;ma</em></span><span> (</span><span><span><span><span><span>روشنائى نامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بنامى </span></span></span></span></span><span>(! </span><span>sic</span><span>) </span><span><span><span><span><span>كرد</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ارى </span></span></span></span></span><span>(!) </span><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اك داور</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>كه هست از فهم و فكر و عقل برتر</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Comp. No. 904 above.</span></p> <p><span>6.Ff. 183</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-184</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>: a Turkish tarkibband.</span></p> <p><span>The whole copy is written by a scribe who was apparently ignorant of Persian, as the spelling in the few lines quoted above proves. The simple Iḍ&acirc;fat he expresses, for instance, almost always by a full </span><span><span><span><span><span>ى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2559, ff. 184, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Turkish hand; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/4</span>}<span> in. by 6 in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>