[IO Islamic 77] هماى و همايون

<ul> <li><strong>Hum&acirc;i u Hum&acirc;y&ucirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1234&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 77 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1234</p> <p>Hum&acirc;i u Hum&acirc;y&ucirc;n (هماى و همايون).</p> <p>One of the famous mathnaw&icirc;s of Kam&acirc;l-ald&icirc;n Ab&ucirc;-al&rsquo;aṭ&acirc; Maḥm&ucirc;d bin &lsquo;Al&icirc; Murshid&icirc;, Usually called Khw&acirc;j&ucirc; Kirm&acirc;n&icirc; (or Bamm&icirc;, see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 286, col. 398 in this Cat., where his name is given as Muḥammad instead of Maḥm&ucirc;d), who was born A.H. 679, the 5th of Shaww&acirc;l (A.D. 1281, Jan. 28), and died probably A.H. 753 (A.D. 1352); the usual date of his death, viz. 745, is impossible, see Rieu ii. pp. 621^b and 623^a. On the poet&rsquo;s life and works, comp. Erdmann in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. ii. pp. 205-217; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 794-796; Rieu ii.p. 620 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 471-473; W. Pertsch, pp. 6 and 70; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. pp. 544, 545; Cat. des MSS. et Xylopraphes, p. 357; Schefer, Chrestomathie Persane, vol. ii, Paris, 1885, pp. 251, 252. This Mathnaw&icirc; was composed in Baghd&acirc;d, and completed A.H. 732 (A.D. 1331, 1332). Beginning:</p> <p>بنام خداوند بالا و پست</p> <p>كه از هستيش هست شد هر چه هست</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 77, ff. 149, 2 coll., each ll. 15-16; unequal Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, occasionally mixed with Shikasta; size, 9, in. by 5&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>