[IO Islamic 3212] حِلْيَة الحُللَ

<ul> <li><strong>Ḥilyat-aḥlulal</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1378 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 3212 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1378</p> <p>Ḥilyat-aḥlulal (حِلْيَة الحُللَ).</p> <p>The fourth and largest treatise on riddle, also styled رسالۀ كبرى در معمّا, extracted from the work حلل المطرّز of Sharaf-ald&icirc;n al-Yazdi (who died A.H. 858=A.D. 1454), by J&acirc;mi (<em>not</em> included in No. 1357 above), beginning (with the same words as No. 14 in the collection of his prose-works):</p> <p>بعد از گشایش مقال &ndash; بستایش خجسته مآل الخ</p> <p>See Bodleian Cat., No. 894, 32; No. 895, 28 ; No. 896, 13; and No. 1345; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 81, No. 2, and. P. 131, No. 1; Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 108; v. p. 638; ii. p. 108; J. Aumer, p. 44, Nos. 134 and 135, i; G. Fl&uuml;gel iii. p. 542, No. 3; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 372, No. 19. This copy is by the author׳s <em>own</em> hand, with numerous marginal additions, and dated A.H. 856=A.D. 1452 (i.e. two years before Sharaf-ald&icirc;n Yazdi׳s death), see the colophon and also the remark on fol. 1^a: اين رسالۀ تصنيف حضرت مولوى جامى بدستخطّ خاص׳.</p> <p>No. 3212, ff. 51, ll. 13; neat and small Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 4&frac14; in. by 6&frac14; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>