[IO Islamic 2092] شاه و گدا

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;h-u-Gad&acirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1426&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 2092 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1426</p> <p>Sh&acirc;h u Gad&acirc; (شاه و گدا).</p> <p>King and beggar, also styled شاه و درويش, king and dervish, a mystical mathnaw&icirc; by the same Hil&acirc;li, beginning:</p> <p>اى وجود تو اصل هر موجود</p> <p>هستى وبودۀ و خواهى بود</p> <p>It has been translated into German verse by H. Eth&eacute; (Morgenl&auml;ndischo Studien, Leipzig, 1870, pp. 197-282); see also Eth&eacute;, &lsquo;Ueber persische Tenzonen,&rsquo; in &lsquo;Abhandlungen des fimften internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses,&rsquo; Berlin, 1882, vol. ii. pp. 130-135.</p> <p>Other copies are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1022-1025; Rieu ii. p. 656; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat. pp. 36, No. 1; 711, no. 6, and 895; a fragment of the same poem, ib. p. 2, No. 6; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 427; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 122; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 389; J. Aumer, p. 35.</p> <p>This copy is dated the 20th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1626, Oct. 11); some extracts from Persian poets on the fly-leaves.</p> <p>No. 2092, ff. 53, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; a little worm-eaten; size, 7&frac14; in. by 4&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>