[IO Islamic 2073] غرّة الكمال

<ul> <li><strong>Ghurrat-alkam&acirc;l.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1192 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2073 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1192</p> <p>Ghurrat-alkam&acirc;l (غرّة الكمال).</p> <p>Another copy of Am&icirc;r Khusrau&rsquo;s <em>third</em> d&icirc;w&acirc;n, with the usual prose-preface, on fol.1^b, beginning: غرّۀ كمال انسانى الخ.</p> <p>There is a large lacuna between ff. 31 and 32, which comprises, according to the Arabic paging, eight leaves, and corresponds to ff. 28^a, first line, to 34^a, l. 5 ab infra, middle, in No. 51 (1186 in this Cat.).</p> <p>Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 44^b, with the same chain-ḳaṣ&icirc;dah as No. 51: چون آفتاب روشن توحيد ذو الجلال الخ, written throughout in red ink. All the following ḳaṣ&icirc;das have, as in No. 51, as headings the various distichs of this poem; the second ḳaṣ&icirc;dah is identical with the second in that copy, and so forth. The d&icirc;w&acirc;n consists of ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tark&icirc;bbands (on fol. 153^b), ḳiṭ&rsquo;as (on fol. 166^b, with a large lacuna after fol. 168, comprising six leaves and corresponding to ff. 147^b, lin. penult., to 154^a, l. 5 in No 51), and short mathnaw&icirc;s, the first of which, on fol. 181^b, is the مفتاح الفتوح, see Nos. 1186, 11; 1187, 13; 1188, 14; and 1190, 4; the second and third, on ff. 203^b and 211^b respectively , are identical with the first two mathnaw&icirc;s in No. 1187, 14.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 2073, ff. 225, 2 coll., each ll. 17; distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^7/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>