[IO Islamic 240] كلّيّات ملك قمّى

<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-Malik-Ḳumm&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1499 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 240 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1499</p> <p>Kulliyy&acirc;t-i-Malik Ḳumm&icirc; (كلّيّات ملك قمّى).</p> <p>The poetical works of Malik Ḳumm&icirc;, who went about A.H. 987 (A.D. 1579) to the Dakhan, where he lived nearly forty years, first in Aḥmadnagar, later on in Bij&acirc;p&ucirc;r in the service of Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m &lsquo;&Acirc;dilsh&acirc;h II (A.H. 988-1037=A.D. 1580-1627), and died A.H. 1024 or 1025 (A.D. 1615 or 1616), according to some two months, according to others one year before his son-in-law, the poet Żuh&ucirc;r&icirc; (see No. 1500 sq.); a few tadhkiras even state, that both poets died in the same affray, A.H. 1025. The latter date is, as far as Malik Ḳumm&icirc; is concerned, corroborated by the following chronogram: او سر اهل سخن بود, comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 125, 151, and 481; Saf&icirc;nah, No. 560 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khul&acirc;ṣat-alafk&acirc;r, No. 262 (ib., col. 311); Beale, Oriental Biogr. Dictionary, p. 168^a; see also Rieu ii. p. 678, and iii. p. 1091^a. A son of Malik Ḳumm&icirc;, Maul&acirc;n&acirc; &lsquo;Abd-alkh&acirc;liḳ Samandar, who excelled as poet also, died, according to the Saf&icirc;nah, No. 565 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.), A.H. 1029 (A.D. 1620); according to the Makhzan-alghar&acirc;&rsquo;ib, No. 1089 (ib., col. 338), already A.H. 1016 (A.D. 1607, 1608), nine years before his father.</p> <p>This collection of the poetical works of Malik Ḳumm&icirc; contains:</p> <p>1.A mathnaw&icirc;, on fol. 90^b, different from both the mathnaw&icirc;s noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 482; it begins:</p> <p>بنام آنكه در دلها وطن ساخت</p> <p>صنم را قبله گاه برهمن ساخت</p> <p>Fol. 103^b is left blank.</p> <p>2.Ḳaṣ&icirc;das, on fol. 121^b, beginning as in Sprenger:</p> <p>دل استاد رموز و خامشى آيات برهانش الخ.</p> <p>3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 178^b, beginning:</p> <p>اى بنامت لوحۀ ديباچۀ ديوان ما</p> <p>صفحۀ دیوان عشقت چهرۀ ایمان ما</p> <p>4.Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and rub&acirc;&rsquo;is, on fol. 325^a, beginning:</p> <p>دوش كز مورد بهشت شفا &ndash; يافت بيماريم گل بیمار</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 240, ff. 90-342, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two and the last four leaves supplied by a later hand; worm-eaten throughout; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>