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[IO Islamic 451] كلّيّات وحشى

<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-Waḥsh&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1444 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 451 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1444</p> <p>Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-Waḥsh&icirc; (كلّيّات وحشى).</p> <p>The complete poetical works of Mull&acirc; Waḥsh&icirc; B&acirc;fiḳ&icirc;, who was born in B&acirc;fiḳ in Kirm&acirc;n, but spent his life in Yazd and died there A.H. 991 or 992 (A.D. 1583 or 1584), comp. Saf&icirc;nah, No. 198 (col. 217 in the Bodleian Cat.), &Acirc;tashkada, No. 256 (ib. col. 271), Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 74 (ib. col. 301), and Taḳi K&acirc;sh&icirc;, No. 453 (p. 35 in A. Sprenger, Catal.). Other copies of Waḥsh&icirc;&rsquo;s complete works are described in Rieu ii. p. 663 sq.; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. pp. 576 and 577; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 586 and 587.</p> <p>This copy of the Kulliyy&acirc;t, in which, however, <em>one</em> short mathnaw&icirc;, the خلد برين (edited by W. Nassau Lees, Calcutta, 1861), is wanting, contains:</p> <p>1.N&acirc;żir u Manż&ucirc;r (ناظر و منظور), a love-story in mathnaw&icirc;-baits, composed A.H. 966 (A.D. 1558, 1559), on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>زهى نام تو سر ديوان هستى</p> <p>ترا بر جمله هستى پيشدستى</p> <p>See Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 291, No. 13521; the تأريخ كتاب ناظر و منظور is quoted Rieu ii. p. 664<sup>a</sup>, and also noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 723, No. 4.</p> <p>2.Farh&acirc;d u Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n (فرهاد و شيرين), incorrectly styled خسرو و شيرين in Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 138, and in G. Fl&uuml;gel, loc. cit., another mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 54<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>الهى سينۀ ده آتش افروز</p> <p>در آن سينه دلى وان دل همه سوز</p> <p>comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1039-1042, 1209 , 4, and col. 769; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 65, No. 6; p. 98, No. 2; p. 711, No. 3, and p. 898. Lithographed, Calcutta, A.H. 1249, Bombay, A.H. 1265, and Ṭahr&acirc;n, A.H. 1270.</p> <p>3.Tarji&rsquo;-i-S&acirc;ḳ&icirc;n&acirc;ma ( ترجيع ساقى نامه ), on fol. 98<sup>b</sup>, followed by a musaddas and a murabba&rsquo;. Other copies of this musaddas are found in Bodleian Cat., No. 1043, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 697, No. 14.</p> <p>4.Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, tark&icirc;bbands, ḳiṭ&rsquo;as , and chronograms, on fol. 106<sup>b</sup>, beginning, as in Rieu&rsquo;s first copy: راحت اگر بایدت خلوت عنقا طلب الخ ( in Sprenger&rsquo;s copy عزلت is substituted for خلوت); some ḳaṣ&icirc;das of Waḥsh&icirc; are also found in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 723, No. 5, and p. 724, No. 13.</p> <p>5.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 169<sup>b</sup>, beginning as in Sprenger (but with a considerable modification in the wording): اى از تو سرخ گشته بخون رنگ زرد ما الخ.</p> <p>6.Rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, on fol. 240<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Dated A.H. 1091 (A.D. 1680).</p> <p>No. 451, ff. 245, 2 coll., each ll. 18; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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