[IO Islamic 888] خمسۀ قاسمی

<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa-i-Ḳ&acirc;sim&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1437 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 888 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1437</p> <p>Khamsa-i-Ḳ&acirc;sim&icirc; (خمسۀ قاسمی).</p> <p>The five epic poems of Mirz&acirc; Muḥammad Ḳ&acirc;sim alḥusain&icirc; of G&ucirc;n&acirc;b&acirc;d (or Jun&acirc;bid) in Khur&acirc;s&acirc;n, with the takhalluṣ Ḳ&acirc;simi, who flourished under Sh&acirc;h Ṭahm&acirc;sp (A.H. 930-984= A.D. 1524-1576); the date of his death is not absolutely fixed; as he is spoken of as still alive in the Naf&acirc;&rsquo;is-alma&acirc;thir (compiled between A.H. 973 and 979 = A.D. 1565 &ndash; 1571, 1572, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 52), he cannot have died before A.H. 979, comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 513-517; Rieu ii. pp. 660 and 661; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. pp. 602 and 603; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 44, 83, and 534-535; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, pp. 387 and 388; Dorn, Das Asiatische Museum, pp. 375; Mohl, Le Livre des Rois, vol. i. preface, p. lxxvii, note; Notices et Extraits iv. p. 297; Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 13, No. 7409; see also Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 809 (coll. 436 and 437 in this Cat.); Saf&icirc;nah, No. 80 (col. 214 in the Bodleian Cat.); &Acirc;tashkada, No. 163 (ib. col. 268); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 58 (ib. col. 300), and Khul&acirc;ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 216 (ib. col. 309).</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>A short preface in prose, by the author himself, beginning, on fol. 1^b: بعد از حمد و سپاس الهى و درود بى قياس بر حضرت رسالت پناهى صلّى الله عليه و آله نموده مى آيد الخ .</p> <p>The <em>five</em> mathnaw&icirc;s in the following order:</p> <p>1.Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma or Shahn&acirc;ma (شاهنامه or شهنامه), also styled اسمعيل نامه ; شاهنامۀ اسمعيل (so in No. 515 of the Bodleian Cat.); شاهنشاه نامه (so in Taḳ&icirc; K&acirc;sh&icirc;, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 44, No. 609, and in No. 514 of the Bodleian Cat.); شاهانشاه نامه (so in Il&acirc;h&icirc;, ib. p. 83). It contains a poetical history of Sh&acirc;h Isma&rsquo;&icirc;l Ṣafaw&icirc;, and was completed A.H. 940 (A.D. 1533, 1534), see Rieu ii. p. 661^a.</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 3^b:</p> <p>خداوند بيچون خدائى تراست</p> <p>بر اقليم جان پادشائى تراست</p> <p>The continuation or second daftar of this epopee, containing the poetical history of the greater part of Sh&acirc;h Ṭahm&acirc;sp&rsquo;s reign, seems to be really extant only in one copy of the British Museum Collection (see Rieu ii. p. 661^b). According to Il&acirc;h&icirc;, loc. cit., both parts of this epopee, together with the شاهرخ نامه (No. 5 below), formed one great historical mathnaw&icirc; in three كتاب .</p> <p>2.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n (ليلى و مجنون), beginning, on fol. 58^b:</p> <p>اى نامه بنام تو مسجّل &ndash; مجنون ره تو عقل اوّل</p> <p>3.G&ucirc;i u Ćaug&acirc;n (گوی و چوگان), or &lsquo;the ball and the bat,&rsquo; also styled K&acirc;rn&acirc;ma (كارنامه), beginning, on fol. 92^b:</p> <p>اين نامه كه هست حسب حالى</p> <p>طغراش بنام ذو الجلالى</p> <p>4.Khusrau u Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n ( خسرو و شيرين), composed A.H. 950 (A.D. 1543, 1544), beginning, on fol. 106^b:</p> <p>الهى قاسمى را ديده ور ساز</p> <p>بروى گلرخانش کن نظر باز</p> <p>5.Sh&acirc;hrukhn&acirc;ma (شاهرخ نامه), a poetical history of Sulṭ&acirc;n Sh&acirc;hrukh (A.H. 807-850 = A.D. 1405-1447), composed in the same year, A.H. 950, but <em>after</em> the preceding mathnaw&icirc;, since both that and Lail&acirc; and Majn&ucirc;n are mentioned as previous poetical achievements by the author in the preface of this work.</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 146^b:</p> <p>الهى بحق پادشائى تراست</p> <p>همه بنده ايم و خدائى تراست</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 888, ff. 202, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of each mathnaw&icirc;; miniature paintings on ff. 6^b, 16^a, 18^b, 19^a, 22^b, 25^a, 28^a, 29^b, 34^a, 35^b, 37^a, 38^b, 40^b, 42^a, 43^b, 51^b, 65^b, 68^a, 71^a, 73^b, 76^b, 78^b, 79^b, 81^a, 98^a, 109^b, 115^b, 124^b, 131^b, 133^b, 135^b, 140^b, 159^b, 162^a, 164^b, 166^a, 168^a, 169^b, 173^a, 175^a, 177^a, 178^b, 186^a, 193^a, 194^b, and 197^a; size, 9&frac12; in. by 6&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>