[IO Islamic 138] خمسۀ جماليّه

<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa-i-Jam&acirc;liyyah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1284 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 138 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1284</p> <p>Khamsa-i-Jam&acirc;liyyah (خمسۀ جماليّه).</p> <p>Five mathnaw&icirc;s, in imitation of the five famous poems of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;, composed by a poet with the takhalluṣ <em>Jam&acirc;l&icirc;</em>, who is not mentioned anywhere (his fuller title given in the frontispiece of the first poem is (حضرة الجماليّه الاحمديّه. He flourished at the end of T&icirc;m&ucirc;r&rsquo;s reign, and under his first successors. The <em>five</em> poems of this khamsah are:</p> <p>1.تحفة الابرار, in twenty maḳ&acirc;las, an imitation of the Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r, on fol. 1^b, beginning:</p> <p>بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم &ndash; هست سرآغاز كتاب كريم</p> <p>2.مهر و نگار, an imitation of Khusrau and Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n, on fol. 29^b, beginning:</p> <p>بفضل بى كران يا ذى المعالى</p> <p>در توحید بگشا برجمالی</p> <p>Composed A.H. 805 (A.D. 1402, 1403), see fol. 85^b, l. 14.</p> <p>3.محزون و محبوب, an imitation of Lail&acirc; and Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 86^b, beginning:</p> <p>اى ذات ترا بدايتى نى &ndash; اوصاف ترا نهايتى نى</p> <p>Composed A.H. 814 (A.D. 1411, 1412), see fol. 132^a, l. 20.</p> <p>4.هفت اورنگ, an imitation of the Haft Paikar, on fol. 132^b, beginning:</p> <p>اى جهان جمله آفريدۀ تو &ndash; سقف افلاک بر کشیدۀ تو</p> <p>Composed A.H. 820 (A.D. 1417), see fol. 178^b, last line but one.</p> <p>5.Another mathnaw&icirc;, incomplete at the end; he title of this last poem cannot be made out, as no headings are found, and the only place in which the author himself enumerates his mathnaw&icirc;s, viz. fol. 134^a, ll. 10, 11, occurs already in the beginning of the هفت اورنگ, that is in the fourth poem. Beginning of this mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 179^b:</p> <p>الهى ز مه تا بماهی تراست</p> <p>همه بندگانیم و شاهی تراست</p> <p>No doubt it is an imitation of the Iskandarn&acirc;ma. Many leaves are a little injured; the last page is very severely damaged. The second mathnaw&icirc; is dated the 8th of Ramad&acirc;n, A.H. 869 (A.D. 1465, May 4), the third in the month Muḥarram, A.H. 870 (A.D. 1465, Aug.-Sept.). We learn from the colophons of both, that this copy was made in Baghd&acirc;d.</p> <p>No. 138, ff. 210, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each poem; pictures on ff. 14^a, 24^a, 75^a, 101^b, 125^b, and 205^a; size, 12^3/8 in. by 7^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>