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[IO Islamic 1183] Persian Romances

<ul> <li>Stories.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 830 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1183 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 830 Two Persian romances, in prose, by anonymous authors: The first, on ff. 1b-49b, without any title, divided into ten bâbs and beginning:راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و محدّثان روزگار و سخن گويان كهن ..... چنين آورده اند كه مشتمل برده باب است باب اوّل در بيان آنكه در ملك سيستان پادشاهى بود صاحب تاج و تاخت و نامش آزاد بخت جاه الخ. The second, on ff. 50b-105b, is styled قصۀ ملك محمّد (according to the following copy: قصّۀ ملك محمّد و گيتى افروز), the love-story of Malik Muḥammad and Gîtî-afrûz, beginning: راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار ....... چنين آورده اند كه در زمان حضرت شيخ صنعان در طرف زمين مغرب شهرى بود كه آنرا ابيض مى گفتند الخ. No date. The second story greatly damaged by worms. No. 1183, ff. 105, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/8 in. by 53/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2474] بكاولى

<ul> <li>Bakâwalî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 829 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2474 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 829 Another copy of the same. The beginning of this copy differs from that in the preceding one, but agrees in the main with that of the Berlin copy, viz. زينت ديباچه و سخن بنام سخن آفرين كه قفل گنجینۀ دلهارا بمفتاح الخ. The author׳s name appears on fol. 6a, last line; the date, A.H. 1134, on fol. 8a, l. 9. The colophon partly torn away. No. 2474, ff. 141, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; several pages slightly injured; size, 87/8 in. by 55/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1773] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li>Bûstân-i-Khayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 833 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1773 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 833 Bûstân-i-Khayâl (بوستان خيال). The first Bahâr or the first two volumes (جلد) of one of the largest and most famous Persian romances, the Bûstân-i-Khayâl or ‘garden of imagination,’ by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88001239/">Mir Muḥammad Taḳî alja’farî alḥusainî </a>of Aḥmadâbâd in Gujarât, with the takhalluṣ Khayâl, who wrote this vast collection of tales, in which historical legends are blended with the adventures of Jinns and Peris, at the request of his noble patron, Nawwâb Rashîdkhân Bahâdur, wherefore, as is stated in the Berlin copy (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 993), the work is also sometimes styled فرمايش رشيدى, and died A.H. 1173 (A.D. 1759, 1760); see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 193, and Rieu ii. p. 770 sq. It comprises altogether fifteen volumes (جلد), divided into three Bahâr (spring), the second and third of which have the additional title of a first and second Gulistân, comp. the detailed description of this bulky romance in the Bodleian Cat., No. 480 (Caps. Or. D. 9-23, the most complete copy of the work extant, in which only one of the fifteen volumes is missing). This first Bahâr, which bears besides the special title of Mahdînâma (مهدى نامه), was commenced A.H. 1155 (A.D. 1742, 1743), at Shâhjahânâbâd, and serves as a sort of muḳaddimah or introduction to the whole work, relating the life and adventures of Sulṭân Abû-alḳâsim Muḥammad Mahdî and the other ancestors and predecessors of Sulṭân Mu’izz-aldîn (i.e. the Khalîf Alḳâ’im biamrillâh, the hero of the second Bahâr or first Gulistân); the last or fifteenth volume of the whole work (the end of the third Bahâr or second Gulistân) was commenced A.H. 1169 and completed in the month Dhû-alḥijjah of the same year (A.D. 1756, September), at Murshidâbâd, see Bodleian Cat., loc. cit. Beginning of the first volume (No. 1773), on fol. 1b: تبارك الذى جعل فى السماء بروجا و فعل فيها سراجاً قمراً نيّراً الخ Beginning of the second volume (No. 1774), on fol. 1b: ذكر رفتن سلطان ابوالقاسم محمّد مهدى و پادشاهزادگان و بعضى امراء عرب بزيارت حرمين و عتبات عاليّات و بيان وقائع آن’ نقل ( نقلۀ Bodl.copy correctly) اين اخبار از شائبۀ (تشابه Bodl.copy correctly) تحقيق چنين آورده اند الخ. Copied A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1787, 1788), as a comparison with No. 1770 (839 below), which is written by the same hand, proves. No. 1773, ff. 295; No. 1774, ff. 183; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, by the same hand, ll. 19 in each page; size, 123/8 – 121/2 in. by 83/8 in. <ul> <li>[ed note: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_6618">link</a> to other copies of this work].</li> </ul>

[IO Islamic 1933] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li>Bûstân-i-Khayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 840 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1933 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 840 Bûstân-i-Khayâl. The second daftar or jild of the third Bahâr or second Gulistân, corresponding to the ninth volume of the whole work ( جلد نهم از كتاب بوستان خيال موسوم جلد دويم از بهار سيوم). This second book has been supplemented afterwards by an extensive appendix, subdivided into two shaṭr (شطر), or as the second British Museum copy (Add. 24,935) calls them, saṭar (سطر), and bearing the special title of Shâhnâma-i-Buzurg (شاهنامۀ بزرگ); according to Rieu’s copy this appendix is also designated as سطر الجلد, see the following two copies. Beginning: بعد از سپاس و ستايش خداوند غفور رحيم و الصلوة (و الصلوات read) ناميات بر رسول واجب التعظيم وآل و اصحاب او ...... چنین گوید .... كه چون احوال صاحب قران اصغر در جلد اوّل از بهار سيوم بجاى كه مذكور شد رسانيد شروع در تحرير جلد دويم بهار سيوم نمود و ابتداى اين جلد از احوال صاحب قران اكبر شاهزاده معزّالدين الخ. No date. No. 1933, ff. 367, ll. 16; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 105/8 in. by 63/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2453] دفتر دوم مجمع البدائع

<ul> <li>Persian Romance.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 846 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2453 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 846 A large fragment of an anonymous Persian romance, defective both at the beginning and end, with a large lacuna (comprising, according to the Arabic paging, fifty-eight leaves) after fol. 22. On the back of the binding it is styled جوامع التواريخ, but on the last page more correctly, as it seems, دفتر دوم مجمع البدائع, the second book of a novel, entitled Majma’-albadâ’i’, or the collection of wonderful and surprising things. At the beginning seventeen leaves are missing, as the Arabic paging shows. The style of this work is about the same as in the preceding Bûstân-i-Khayâl, combining heroic legends and fairy tales. The copy is a correct and tolerably old one. No. 2453, ff. 240, ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 95/8 in. by 71/2 in.

[IO Islamic 1931] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li>Bûstân-i-Khayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 845 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1775 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 845 Bûstân-i-Khayâl. The fifth daftar or jild of the third Bahâr, corresponding to the thirteenth volume of the whole work. Beginning: بعد از حمد و ثناى حضرت كريم كارساز بنده نواز خداوند جهان الخ. Colophon: تمام شد جلد سيزدهم بوستان خيال׳. No. 1931, ff. 393, ll. 16; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 65/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1775] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li>Bûstân-i-Khayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 844 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1775 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 844 Bûstân-i-Khayâl. The fourth daftar or jild of the third Bahâr, corresponding to the twelfth volume of the whole work. Beginning: زبان انسان شمع انجمن وقتى تواند شد كه بقدر مقدور و حمد خداوند غفور الخ. In. l. 4 the author makes the following statement: چون جلد سيوم بهار سيوم كتاب بوستان خيال باتمام رسيد شروع در تحرير جلد چهارم نمودم الخ; and further down: مخفى و مستتر نماند كه جلد اوّل تمام و كمال مشترك باحوال صاحبقران اكبر و اعظم و اصغر مع توابعات بود و جلد دوم تمام و كمال مشتمل بر احوال صاحبقران اكبر شاهزاده معزّالدين تاجور و جلد سيوم همگى باحوال صاحبقران اعظم كه شاهزاده خورشيد تاج بخش مع متعلّقاته بقلم آمده الخ. In the colophon he says:الحمد لله و المنّة كه جلد چهارم از بهار سيوم كه فقط بر احوال صاحبقران اصغر شاهزاده بدر منير مشتمل بود باتمام رسيد باقى احوال مهتر توفيق و احوالات ديگر در جلد ديگر الخ. Copied A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1787, 1788). No. 1775, ff. 386, ll. 19; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, by the same hand as Nos. 1769-1774 (833, 836, 837, 839, and 842 above); size, 121/2 in. by 81/4 in.

[IO Islamic 315] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 875 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 315 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> d. Copies of the Shâhnâma without any preface. 875 Shâhnâma. This copy, which is dated by Ya’ḳûb bin Isḥaḳ A.H. 1009, 10th of Rabî’ alawwal (A.D. 1600, September 19), is divided into two halves, the first beginning on fol. 1b, the second on fol. 270b, with Luhrâsp’s accession : چون لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت داد الخ. No. 315, ff. 510, 4 coll., each ll. 25; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; rich illumination on ff. 1a, 1b, and 2a, and an illuminated frontispiece besides at the beginning of the second half; size, 135/8 in. by 83/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3056] ديباچۀ شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 871 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3056 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 871 Dîbâća-i-Shâhnâma ( ديباچۀ شاهنامه). Another copy of the Bâisungharî preface, beginning: افتتاح سخن آن به كه كند اهل كمال الخ, and ending with the short chronological list of the Pîshdâdian, Kayânian, Ashkânian, and Sâsânian kings of Persia. No date. No. 3056, ff. 44-66, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 65/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1256] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 868 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1256 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 868 The same. The Bâisungharî preface, beginning here with the same verses as in No. 704 of W. Pertsch’s Berlin Cat. (p. 735): فريدون و جمشيد خورشيد شان بامرش درين گنبد آمد روان This beautiful copy is divided into two halves, the first of which begins on fol. 10b, the second on fol. 332b, with the accession of Luhrâsp. No date. No. 1256, ff. 622, 4 coll. each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of both halves of the poem; the first four pages luxuriously embellished, on the first two a long inscription as heading of the whole work; pictures on ff. 13a, 29a, 42b, 52b, 57b, 70b, 79a, 102b, 120b, 138b, 150b, 175b, 186a, 189a, 196b, 207a, 220b, 233b, 276b, 321b, 361b, 384b, 421b, 460b, 496a, 529a, 552a, and 580b; size, 17 in. by 103/8 in.

[IO Islamic 165] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 879 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 165 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 879 The same. This copy is likewise divided into two halves, the second of which begins, on fol. 292a, with Luhrâsp’s accession: چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت شاد الخ See Nos. 863, 867-869, and 875 above. All the headings throughout are left blank. No date. Bound together with MS. is a letter of W. Jones to Richard Johnson, to whom this copy once belonged and who had lent it to Mr. Jones. No. 165, ff. 626, 4 coll., each ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 115/8 in. by 73/8 in.

[IO Islamic 453] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 872 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 453 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> c. Copies of the Shâhnâma with another preface. 872 Shâhnâma. This copy has the same preface as Add. 27,302 in the British Museum (Rieu ii. p. 536b) and No. 497 in The Bodleian Cat., which begins thus: حمد و ستايش مر خداى را عزّ و جلّ كه خداى هر دو جهان است الخ, and contains a legendary biography of Firdausî, with a short genealogical account at the end. The poem is, as in many of the preceding copies, divided into four books. Book I, on fol. 9b; II, on fol. 192b; III, on fol. 333b; IV, on fol. 452b. The first book goes down to Rustam’s slaying the dîw Akwân (see Bodleian Cat., No. 500), the second to Kuhram’s falling into the hand of Isfandiyâr, and the third to the beginning of Nûshirwân’s reign; the fourth comprises the rest. Many headings are left blank. Ff. 1 and 8 are supplied by another hand. This copy was finished in Ramaḍân, A.H. 991 (A.D. 1583, September-October). No. 453, ff. 576, 4 coll. (except the last two pages which have only two), each ll. 25; small Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; size, 9 in. by 55/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2454] انتخاب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Intikhâb-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 882 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2454 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> e. Abridgements of the Shâhnâma and other works relating to the poem. 882 Intikhâb-i-Shâhnâma (انتخاب شاهنامه). A kind of abridgement of the Shâhnâma, with the above title given to it in the colophon on fol. 207a; it may perhaps be identical with the اختيارات or ‘selections from the Shâhnâma,’ made by the poet Khwâjah Mas’ûd bin Sa’d bin Salmân, who died A.H. 525 (A.D. 1131), see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 406, and No. 908 in this Cat.; but this copy is unfortunately in such an extremely bad state, defective at the beginning, with a very large lacuna after fol. 8, and so severely injured throughout, that it is impossible to give any more detailed account of its character or purpose. There is scarcely one leaf undamaged, whole portions of many pages are torn away (particularly in the beginning), and where catch-words are found, they seldom agree with the initial verse of the following page. On fol. 207a, where the title occurs, the copy apparently concludes and is dated by Asad-allâh, A.H. 945, month of Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1538, August); but on ff. 207b and 208a again some extracts from the Shâhnâma are found, and on the latter page, written by another hand, is another colophon, dated A.H. 966, 18th of Jumâdâ-alawwal (A.D. 1559, February 26). No. 2454, ff. 208, 4 coll., each ll. 28; Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 33 and 208 written by other hands; size, 10¼ in. by 6 ¾ in.

[IO Islamic 118] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 861 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 118 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 861 Another copy of the same. Contents: The older preface on fol. 1b, beginning as in the preceding copy. Genealogical index of all the Persian kings, quoted by Firdausî, on fol. 7a. Another genealogical index in verse ( فهرست منظوم شاهنامه), on fol. 9a. Alphabetical index of the Pahlawî (and other uncommon) words, used by Firdausî in his epopee, on fol. 10b. The poem itself is divided into two halves, viz.: First half, on fol. 12b, beginning: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ. Second half, on fol. 318b, beginning with Gushtâsp’s reign: چو گشتاسپ را داد لهراسپ تخت الخ. The first half is dated by Ḥâfiż Aḥmad bin Muḥammad the 23rd of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1009 (A.D. 1601, March 28); the second is not dated. No. 118, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; vignettes on ff. 1a, 12a, and 318a; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 12b, and 318b; pictures on ff. 338a, 365a, and 430b. Part of ff. 58a, 79a, 102b, and 180b left blank; many headings and single verses missing or injured; ff. 487 and 556 supplied by a more modern hand; size, 133/8 in. by 93/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3442] شاهناشاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhinshahnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 901 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3442 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 901 Shâhinshahnâma (شاهناشاهنامه). One of the most modern imitation of the Shâhnâma in honour of the exploits of Fatḥ ‘Alî Shâh, king of Persia (A.H. 1212-1250=A.D. 1797-1834), by the poet laureate Fatḥ ‘Alî Khân Kâshî, with the takhalluṣ Ṣabâ (who died, according to Rieu iii. p. 1082a, and Schefer, Ambassade au Kharezm, A.H.1238=A.D. 1822, 1823), see Bodl. Cat., Nos. 520; G. Flügel i. p. 603; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 957; Fundgruben des Orients, vi, Heft iv. p, 29 sq.; vol. 7, pp. 273 and 281; vol. 9, p. 1 sq.; vol. 17, p. 32 sq.; vol. 18, p. 44 sq.; and vol. 70, p. 71. Introduction by the author, on ff. 1b-9b, beginning: نخست چون بنگری جهانی بینی پر از چون وچند همی بست و گشاد بينى و ستم و داد الخ. Beginning of the epopee, on fol. 10b: بنام خداوند آموزگار – نگارندۀ نامۀ روزگار This most superb and splendidly executed copy was made by order of Fatḥ ‘Alî Shâh himself, and finished by the transcriber, Mahdî alḥusainî alfarâhânî, the Kâtib of the royal residence, the first of Rajab, A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810, August 2). Received from Comm. Of Corresp., 28th March, 1816. No. 3442, ff. 451, 4 coll., each ll. 20; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; gorgeous frontispieces on ff. 1b, 10b, and 11b; ff. 1b, 2a, 10b, and 11a magnificently illuminated; smaller illumination on ff. 313a, 314a, and the last two pages; very fine pictures on ff. 28a, 32a, 37a, 44b, 56a, 64b, 78b, 88a, 97b, 102a, 110a , 111a, 112a, 113a, 114a, 115b, 116b, 130b, 145b, 150b, 153b, 156b, 201a, 212b, 218b, 235a, 239a, 245a, 263a, 280a, 317b, 339a, 343a, 354a, 382a, 387b, 389b, and 396b; splendid eastern binding with flowers ; size, 153/4 in. by 97/8 in.

[IO Islamic 609] ديوان سنائى

<ul> <li>Diwân-i-Sanâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 928 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 928 Diwân-i-Sanâ’î ( ديوان سنائى). A small collection of the lyrical poems of Sanâ’î (for copies of the complete dîwân see Bodleian Cat., No. 537, and Rieu ii. p. 551a), containing chiefly ḳaṣîdas, interspersed with a few ghazals and ḳiṭ’as. Beginning: اى در دل مشتاقات از عشق تو بوستانها از حجّت بيچونى از صنع تو برهانها Ff. 9-13 are misplaced; the right order is 9, 12, 10, 11, 13; there sems besides to be a lacuna after fol. 23b. No date. No. 609, ff. 1-48a, 2 coll., each ll., 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece: the first two pages splendidly adorned; a drawing on fol. 1a and a picture on fol. 48a; size, 9¾ in. by 5½ in.

[IO Islamic 2722] اشعار سنائى

<ul> <li>Ash’âr-i-Sanâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 927 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2722 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 927 Ash’âr-i-Sanâ’î( اشعار سنائى). A large collection of Sanâ’î’s poetical works, but arranged in a somewhat confusing manner. Contents: A prose preface (ديباچه), which is apparently that of Muḥammad bin ‘Alî al-Raffâ (or bin ‘Alî Raḳḳâm, see above in No. 921), as the beginning is the usual one of that preface, viz.: الحمد لله الخبير بخفيّات الضمائر العليم بحقّيّات ( بخبيّات Rieu) السرائر المنزّه عن الامثال و النظائر المتعالى عن العشيرة و العشائر الخ; but at the end of this preface, on fol. 7a, the following statement appears, that this collection of Sanâ’i’s poetical works is entitled: كتاب الحدائق فى الحقائق , and consists of ten ḳisms, viz.: قسم اوّل در نامها و جوابها كه وى نوشته است. قسم دويم در توحيد ربّ العالمين جلّ جلاله. قسم سيوم در نعت پيغمبر محمّد مصطفا صلوات الله و سلامه. قسم چهارم اندر موعظه وزهد و حكمت. قسم پنجم در مدحيّات و مراثى. قسم ششم در غزلّيات. قسم هفتم فى المقطّعات و المراثى و الهزليّات. قسم هشتم در رباعياّت. قسم نهم در مراتب حال انسانى كه آنرا كنوز الرموز خوانند و سير العبّاد الى المعاد نيز خوانند. قسم دهم در كارنامه كه ببلخ نوشته بود و سنائى آباد فى الزهد و الموعظة و السلوك و العشق‘ In the collection itself these separate ḳisms are not forthcoming, except the first, ninth, and tenth. The first (in prose) begins, on fol. 7b, l. 1: پيش از آنكه لطف ديموميّت و حكمت ربوبيّت الخ. Then follows a large series of ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, ghazals, and rubâ’îs, mixed together without any order, on fol. 23b, beginning: قد شهد الله جلّ ذكراه – بأنّه لا اله الاّ هو At the end of this series is written: تمّت الكتاب (!sic)الحدائق فى الحدائق الخ ; and it is dated the 17th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1000 and ( the second number is missing). On fol. 244a there is found a ḳaṣîdah in honour of Shaikh Abû-almafâkhir Muḥammad bin Manṣûr; on fol. 245a a new series of ḳaṣîdas begins, the first bait of which runs thus: اى نهاده پاى همّت بر سر اوج سما الخ, followed by ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 283b, and a string of ghazals in alphabetical order, except the first six, on fol. 295a. Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 296a: اى همه خوشى در آغوش شما قبلۀ جانها بُناگوش شما The ninth ḳism begins on fol. 365a and contains, quite in agreement with the above index, the mystical mathnawî كنوز الرموز, otherwise styled سير العبّاد الى المعاد ( see No. 914 above). The tenth ḳism begins on fol. 380a and contains the second mathnawî mentioned in the index, the كارنامه (see Nos. 914 and 916 above), the heading of which runs here thus: آغاز كارنامه كه خواجه سنائى از بلخ بفرنين ( بغزنين read) فرستاد بجماعت دوستان و ياران مذكور الخ. At the end of the copy, on ff. 393b-411, a third mathnawî is found, viz. the عقلنامه (see Nos. 914 and 915 above), introduced by a short preface in prose, beginning: الحمد لله حمدًا بكافى نعمه الخ; this mathnawî is, according to the index and the colophon on fol. 411a, also styled سنائى آباد. No. 2722, ff. 411, 2 coll., each ll. 15-24; written by different hands in various forms of Nasta’lîḳ; some of the last pages injured; size, 93/8 in. by 6-63/8 in.

[IO Islamic 898] شرح حديقه

<ul> <li>Sharḥ-i-Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 924 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 898 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 924 Another copy of the same. The prefaces, both of the poet and his editor, the account of Ilâhî’s share, the short introductions, and the fatwâ are wanting in this copy, which begins at once with the initial bait of Bâb I of the Ḥadîḳah; beginning of the commentary as in the preceding copy. It is rich in original glosses and notes, which make this copy especially valuable. The first gloss is: درون سالكان بنور عرفان و برون بنور شريعت. Bâb II, on fol. 60b; III, on fol. 126a; IV, on fol. 140a; V, on fol. 143b; VI, on fol. 153a; VII, on fol. 177b; VIII, on fol. 185a; IX, on fol. 188b; X, on fol. 207a. The date of composition is again A.H. 535, but (as a various reading) there is written بيست above the word سى. On fol. 1a the poet is again called by mistake ثنائى. This copy was made in Muḥammadshâh’s reign, at the request of Mîr Mu’min Ghulâm-i-Ḥasan wa Ḥusain (مير مؤمن غلام حسن و حسين), by Shaikh Jamâl Muḥammad Ḳuraishî alhâshimî. The year is omitted, only the 22nd of Rabî’-alawwal is given as date. No. 898, ff. 276, ll. 19 (the verses in 4 coll.); Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 2552] ديوان خاقانى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Khâḳânî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 967 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2552 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 967 A very large, but defective copy of the same. This copy (which is incorrectly styled, on fol. 1a, Kulliyyât-i-Khâḳânî) contains ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’bands, ghazals, and ḳiṭ’as, all mixed together, without any order. Beginning as usual. On fol. 406a a series of rubâ’îs begins with the same bait as in No. 2460 (964 above): اين چرخ بد آئين الخ. This part is incomplete at the end; it breaks off on fol. 415b; the last rubâ’î corresponds to the fourth in No. 2460, fol. 450a. On the fly-leaves, at the end, there are written some lines in Arabic, beginning: قال النبىّ صلّى الله عليه و آله الخ. No. 2552, ff. 415, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; some embellishments on the first two pages; size, 103/8 in. by 61/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2677] ديوان انورى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Anwarî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 935 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2677 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Anwarî (Nos. 935-949). 935 Dîwân-i-Anwarî (ديوان انورى). The complete lyrical poems of Auḥad-aldîn ‘Alî Anwarî, commonly called the greatest ḳaṣîdah-writer of Persia, who was the panegyrist of Sulṭân Sanjar, and died probably A.H. 585 or 587 (A.D. 1189 or 1191); the Haft Iḳlîm (see above, col. 416, No. 528) fix his death in A.H. 580 (A.D. 1184); all the earlier dates given in tadhkiras, as for instance 540 or 547, are absolutely impossible; comp. on this question and on Anwari’s life and poetical achievements in general, Rieu ii. p. 554 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 543-558, and 1980; W. Pertsch, p. 83, and Berlin Cat., p. 743 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 331 sq.; G. Flügel i. p. 502; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 319; J. Aumer, p. 10; Krafft, p. 62; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 170; and the Russian monograph of V. Joukowski or Shukovski, St. Petersburg, 1883 (see also W. Pertsch in the ‘Literaturblatt für orientalische Philologie,’ ii. pp. 10-18). The poet was born in Mahnah, in the Dasht-i-Khâwarân, near Abîward, and therefore used as first takhalluṣ Khâwarî. His dîwân has been printed, resp. lithographed in Tabrîz, A.H. 1260 and 1266; in Lucknow, 1880. Contents: A short preface, in prose, on fol. 1b, beginning: مهتر شغلى كه اصحاب نطق و دراست بدان نازند و ارباب فهم و فراست آنرا دستور سازند الخ. Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands in alphabetical order, except the first, on fol. 2b. Beginning of the initial poem: مقدّرى نه بآلت بقدرت مطلق كند بشكل بخارى چو گنبذ ازرق Beginning of the first alphabetical poem, on fol. 3b: باز اين چه جوانى و جمال است جهانرا وين حال كه نو گشت زمين را و زمانرا Ḳiṭ’as arranged alphabetically, on fol. 188b, beginning: ايا صدرى كه از روى بزرگى – فلك را نيست با قدر تو بالا Ghazals, also in alphabetical order, on fol. 271a, beginning: از دور بديدم آن پرى را – آن رشك بتان آزرى را Short satirical mathnawîs (sometimes called هزليّات or, as in the following copy, مثنويّات در هجو), on fol. 323a, beginning: حبّذا گیر قاضئ گیرنگ – آنکه دارد زسنگ خارا ننگ Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 327a, beginning: اى هجر مگر نهايتى نيست ترا وى وعدۀ وصل غايتى نيست ترا Anwarî’s dîwân ends on fol. 352b, and is dated by Mu’izz-aldîn Ḥasanî, the 7th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1650, Dec. 31). On f. 353-359 there is written by another hand a series of anonymous mathnawî-baits, beginning abruptly: بشنو نكته گر اهل هوشی خویش را به که سگ بفروشى Some of the last pages are damaged; large water-spots throughout the whole copy. No. 2677, ff. 359, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 216 and 353-359 supplied by other hands; size, 11½ in. by 7 in.