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[IO Islamic 2073] غرّة الكمال

<ul> <li>Ghurrat-alkamâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1192 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2073 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1192 Ghurrat-alkamâl (غرّة الكمال). Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s third dîwân, with the usual prose-preface, on fol.1b, beginning: غرّۀ كمال انسانى الخ. There is a large lacuna between ff. 31 and 32, which comprises, according to the Arabic paging, eight leaves, and corresponds to ff. 28a, first line, to 34a, l. 5 ab infra, middle, in No. 51 (1186 in this Cat.). Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 44b, with the same chain-ḳaṣîdah as No. 51: چون آفتاب روشن توحيد ذو الجلال الخ, written throughout in red ink. All the following ḳaṣîdas have, as in No. 51, as headings the various distichs of this poem; the second ḳaṣîdah is identical with the second in that copy, and so forth. The dîwân consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands (on fol. 153b), ḳiṭ’as (on fol. 166b, with a large lacuna after fol. 168, comprising six leaves and corresponding to ff. 147b, lin. penult., to 154a, l. 5 in No 51), and short mathnawîs, the first of which, on fol. 181b, is the مفتاح الفتوح, see Nos. 1186, 11; 1187, 13; 1188, 14; and 1190, 4; the second and third, on ff. 203b and 211b respectively , are identical with the first two mathnawîs in No. 1187, 14. No date. No. 2073, ff. 225, 2 coll., each ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 57/8 in.

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