[IO Islamic 190] سامنامه

<ul> <li><strong>S&acirc;mn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1235&nbsp;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 190 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1235</p> <p>S&acirc;mn&acirc;ma (سامنامه).</p> <p>This strange mathnaw&icirc;, which is styled on fol. 1^a شاهنامه (afterwards changed into سام نامه), and in the colophon سامنامه , a full account of which has been given by Spiegel in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. iii. pp. 245-261, is like the poem of the same title and contents, described in Rieu ii. pp. 543, 544 (where, however, the beginning differs, comp. also ib. iii. p. 1089^b), merely a close imitation or rather reproduction of Khw&acirc;j&ucirc; Kirm&acirc;n&icirc;&rsquo;s هماى و همايون in the preceding copy, in which, simply for the purpose of deceiving the reader, the names of Hum&acirc;i, Hum&acirc;y&ucirc;n, etc., have been changed into S&acirc;m, son of Nar&icirc;m&acirc;n, Par&icirc;dukht, etc.; comp. also Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 24 in Bodleian Cat. (col. 297). With the real S&acirc;mn&acirc;ma this work has nothing whatever to do. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy:</p> <p>بنام خداوند بالا و پست</p> <p>كه از هستيش هست شد هر چه هست</p> <p>Dated the first of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal, A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674, June 5).</p> <p>No. 190, ff. 148, 2 coll., each ll. 17; inelegant and careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>