[IO Islamic 505] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1768 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 505 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>1768</span></p> <p><span>Miscellanious.</span></p> <p><span>This MS., written like some of the preceding ones, by a very rude and inexperienced hand, contains:</span></p> <p><span>1.A short collection of letters by Ni</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>mat-all&acirc;h, a Jew entitled </span><span><span><span><span><span>انشاء نعمت</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning : </span><span><span><span><span><span>الحمد لله </span></span></span></span></span><span>..... </span><span><span><span><span><span>بند</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>در</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اه </span></span></span></span></span><span>..... </span><span><span><span><span><span>اشتباه نعمت الله بنى اسرائيل الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>2.Maḥm&ucirc;dn&acirc;ma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>محمود نامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), a collection of ghazals (from five to seven baits), by an unknown author, arranged in the form of a d&icirc;w&acirc;n, so that for every rhyme-letter there appears one ghazal, and forming a complete poem, treating of the well-known story of Ma</span><span>ḥm&ucirc;d and Ay&acirc;z (the best known poetical version of which is the mathnaw&icirc; of the same title, by Zul&acirc;l&icirc;. See No. 1494, 2 above); in the concluding verse of each stanza </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Ma</span><span>ḥm&ucirc;d,&rsquo;</span><span> or </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Ma</span><span>ḥm&ucirc;d u Ay&acirc;z&rsquo;</span><span> appears as a kind of takhallu</span><span>ṣ. Beginning, on fol. 12</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اى داغ بر</span></span></span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>دل از غم خال تو لاله را الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>3.Sa&rsquo;d&icirc;&rsquo;s alleged </span><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ندنامه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see No. 1127, 7 above), beginning, on fol. 28</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>كريما ببخشاى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>4.A Rekhta mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 39</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, At the end of No. 2 is written: </span><span><span><span><span><span>اين كتاب در سركار ت</span></span></span><span><span><span>پوّ</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>سلطان است</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No. 505, ff. 48. 2 coll., each ll. 9; rude Shikasta; also, 7&frac34; in. by 5&frac12; in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>