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[IO Islamic 514] قصائد انورى

<ul> <li>Ḳaṣâ’id-i-Anwarî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 945 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 514 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 945 Another copy of the same. The same ḳaṣîdas, arranged alphabetically, beginning as usual. The second (or first alphabetical) ḳaṣîdah, on fol.2a, beginning:صبا بسبزه بياراست باغ دنيى را الخ, is the second in the preceding copy too. Rich marginal notes. Copied A.H. 1120 (A.D. 1708, 1709), in Bahâdur-shâh’s reign, by ‘Abd-alkhâliḳ Gharib. No. 514, ff. 239, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 240] ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Żahîr-aldîn Shufurwah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 934 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 240 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 934 Dîwân-i-Żahîr-aldîn Shufurwah ( ديوان ظهير الدين شفروه). According to the short prose preface, on fol. 1b:امام عالم بارع افضل اكمل ظهير الدين شفروه اصفهانى روّح الله روحه مردى بى نظير و حكيم بوده است و مستجمع جميع علوم و واعظ نيز در عهد سلطان ارسلان بوده و مدح او و پسرش طغرل گفته الخ, this copy contains the extremely rare dîwân-not met with in any other collection- of Żahîr-aldîn ‘Abdallâh Shufurwah of Iṣfahân, who was a cousin of the better-known Sharaf-aldin Muḥammad Faḍl-allâh or ‘Abd-almu’min Shufurwah (see Haft Iḳlim, Nos. 867 and 868, col. 441 in this Cat.; Âtashkada, Nos. 391 and 406, Bodleian Cat., cols. 276 and 277; and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 17, No. 35), and, like him, a panegyrist of Sulṭân Arslân bin Ṭughrul Saljûḳî (A.H. 556-571=A.D. 1161-1176) and of his son and successor, Sulṭân Ṭughrul III (A.H. 571-590=A.D. 1176-1194); comp. also the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1492 in Bodleian Cat., col. 349, where he is praised as an expert in law, tradition, and Ḳurân-interpretation, and where some poetical extracts are given, which, however, cannot be traced in this copy. The dîwân consists of ḳaṣîdas, intermixed with a few ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and four rubâ’îs. Beginning of the dîwân, on fol. 1b: اى هستئ بى نشان نشانت – بيخود خرد از علوّ شانت No date. No. 240, ff. 1-88, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 387] خمسۀ نظامى

<ul> <li>Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 976 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 387 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 976 The same. Contents: 1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Khusra u Shîrîn, on fol. 37b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 212b. 5a.The first part of the Iskandarnâma (اقبالنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 293b. 5b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma (خردنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 400b. The copy concludes on fol. 454b, and on ff. 455-468 some parts of the last mathnawî are repeated, but not in any coherent form; for instance, fol. 456b, l. 11, corresponds to fol. 433a, l. 3, but the preceding portions in both parts are quite different. On fol. 453a, l. 5, there appears the وفات حكيم , i.e. the انجامش روزگار نظامى, see above in No. 973. No date. But on fol. 1a there is the seal of a former owner, rather effaced, dated A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659, 1660), and another of Shâh Mîrkhân (dated A.H. 1147. A.D. 1734, 1735). In August, 1782, this MS. came into the possession of Mr. Richard Johnson. No. 387, ff. 468, 4 centre-coll., each ll. 17; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, the first two pages luxuriously adorned; a vignette on fol. 1a; miniature paintings on ff. 4a, 17a, 47b, 55a, 61b, 64a, 65b, 70a, 71b, 83a, 93b, 95b, 102b, 104a, 124a, 132a, 167b, 182a, 201b, 225b, 227a, 232a, 235b, 237b, 244a, 252a, 259b, 264b, 267a, 279a, 284b, 306b, 311a, 318a, 334a, 337b, 346b, 364b, 372b, 374a, 386a, 396a, 422b, 438a, 442b, 456a, 466a, and 468a; size, 10½ in. by 6½ in.

[IO Islamic 789] خسرو و شيرين

<ul> <li>Khusrau u Shîrîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 999 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 789 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 999 Khusrau u Shîrîn. Another copy of Niżâmî’s خسرو و شيرين, without a date. Beginning: خداوندا در توفيق بگشاى الخ. No. 789, ff. 73, 4 coll., each ll. 21; small, but distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; pictures on ff. 15b, 23b, 27a, 30b, 41a, 44b, and 67a; size, 97/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 1504] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li>Lailâ u Majnûn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1003 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 1504 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1003 The same. Another, very modern, copy of Lailâ and Majnûn, dated the 26th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1222 (A.D. 1808, February 24), by Munshî Mihr Khaḍîb. The poem concludes on fol. 162a, and is followed by some baits from the pen of the transcriber himself, as it seems. On ff. 163-166 baits of another mathnawî, not belonging to Lailâ and Majnûn, are written, beginning: گفتم كه چو پیریم کند پست فرزند جوان بگيردم دست No. 1504, ff. 166, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12¾ in. by 7½ in.

[IO Islamic 1057] ليلى و مجنون

<ul> <li>Lailâ u Majnûn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1001 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 1057 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1001 The same. This copy was finished the 19th of Rajab, in the 49th year of – (probably ‘Âlamgîr’s reign, =A.H. 1117, A.D. 1705, November 6), by ‘Abd-alraḥîm for Ghulâm Ḥusain, known as Walî Muḥammad. On several pages a few hemistichs and single words are omitted. No. 1057, ff. 159, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8½ in. by 4¾ in.

[IO Islamic 155] Iskandarnâma

<ul> <li>Iskandarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1024 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 155 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1024 The same. Dated the 4th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808, April 1), by Muḥammad ‘Alî of Iṣfahân. No. 155, ff. 124, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 123/8 in. by 73/4 in.

[IO Islamic 3384] Farîd-aldîn's Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnawîs.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1036 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 3384 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1036 Two mathnawîs by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr. This copy contains: 1.Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on ff. 3b-226b. 2.Bîsarnâma, on ff. 227a-239a, beginning: من خدايم من خدايم من خدا فارغم از كبر و از كين و هوا The initial bait of this poem in No. 559 (1031 in this Cat.), fol. 152b, and in A. Sprenger’s first copy, Catal., p. 349, is here the third; whereas the beginning of Sprenger’s second copy appears here as second bait. On ff. 1a-3a there is a short account of some Pîrs of the Ḳâdirî seet in Multân, headed نقل عنايت نامه, and written by Muḥammad Ghauth ibn Sayyid Isma’îl ibn Shaikh ‘Abd-alḳâdir ibn Shaikh Mûsâ Ḥasanî alḥusainî algîlânî, who states that his grandfather ‘Abd-alḳâdir, who died the 17th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677, February 20), invested him (after the premature death of his father), A.H. 1082 (A.D. 1671, 1672), with the خرقه. This copy is dated by Nû-allâh in the Ṣûbah of Khândîs, the 17th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1105=A.D. 1694, April 13 (here called the 38th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign, whereas it is more correctly the 37th, ‘Âlamgir having declared himself emperor of Dihlî in Dhû-alḳa’dah of A.H. 1068=A.D. 1658, August). Presented by J. H. Peile, Esq., and received the 19th September, 1818; transferred to Civil College, 9 August, 1819 (Haileybury). No. 3384, olim 19. J. 12, ff. 239, 2 coll., each ll. 10; large and excellent Nasta’lîḳ, written on brown paper, sprinkled with gold; marbled margin throughout, except on the last six leaves; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 3b; size, 9 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 3312] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1073 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 3312 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1073 The same. This copy, which is collated and dated the 23rd of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718, April 24), by ‘Abdallâh, contains: A Persian paraphrase and explanation of the (Arabic) preface of the first daftar, on fol. 1b, beginning: هذا كتاب اين كتاب المثنوى المعنوى مثنوئ معنويست و نسبت او بسوى معانى آنست كه مقصد اصلى الخ. Daftar I, on fol. 3b; II, on fol. 68b; III, on fol. 119b; IV, on fol. 190b; V, on fol. 248b; VI, on fol. 311b. The prefaces are complete and agree in wording with those in the preceding copy, except that of Daftar V, which begins (as in Nos. 1063 and 1066 above): بدانيد و آگاه باشید که شریعت همچو شمعيست الخ. No. 3312, olim 17. J. 2, ff. 381, 4 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b and at the beginning of each daftar; size, 101/8 in. by 67/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3270] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1065 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 3270 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1065 The same. All the daftars have the usual prose-prefaces, the preface of the first, on fol. 1b, breaks off at the end of the first page. Daftar I, on fol. 2b; II, on fol. 48b; III, on fol. 90b; IV, on fol. 145b; V, on fol. 195b; VI, on fol. 245b (the preface of the last begins here: ربّ زِدْنى علماً مجلّد ششم الخ) This copy was transcribed by Muḥammad Ṭâhir ibn Ḳâḍî Muḥammad ‘Alî in the citadel of كواندامه (belonging to Sulṭân Muḥammad ‘Âdilshâh); the first daftar was finished the 12th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1066 (A.D. 1656, Sept. 1); the second, the 13th of Dhû-alḥijjah in the same year (A.D. 1656, Oct. 2 ); the third, the 12th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1067 (A.D. 1656, Oct. 31); the fourth, the 7th of Ṣafar in the same year (A.D. 1656, Nov. 25); the fifth, the 8th of Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1656, Dec. 25); and the sixth, the 6th of Jumâdâ-alawwal (A.D. 1657, Feb. 20). Occasionally various readings and short glosses on the margin. No. 3270, olim 11. J. 8, ff. 298, 4 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; a large illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 135/8 in. by 81/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2451] مثنوی معنوی

<ul> <li>Mathnawî-i-Ma’nawî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1068 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 2451 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1068 The same. Good copy, with all the prose-prefaces, finished on a Sunday ( فى يوم الاحد) in Ṣafar , A.H. 1085 (A.D. 1674, May- June). Daftar I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 75b; III, on fol. 142b; IV, on fol. 227b ; V, on fol. 295b; VI, on fol. 373b. No. 2451, ff. 459, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 32; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each daftar; size, 95/8 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 992] تذكرة الاوليا

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alauliyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1054 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 992 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1054 A fragment of the same. This incomplete copy breaks off in the biography of Shaikh Junaid Baghdâdî (No. 43 in the preceding copies), which begins on fol. 152a and forms here the forty-first biography. Beginning as usual. No. 992, ff. 1-168b, ll. 19; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 107/8 in. by 63/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1271] تذكرة الاوليا

<ul> <li>Tadhkirat-alauliyâ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1053 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 1271 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1053 The same. This copy of the first part of the Tadhkirat-alauliyâ comprises, according to the index on ff. 5b-6b, seventy-three biographies; but in the text itself the number of biographical accounts amounts to seventy only, and even of these four are entirely missing. There are consequently wanting here Nos. 18-20, 45, 71, and 72 of No. 1051 above. 1.On fol. 6b; 2. on fol. 10b; 3. on fol. 16b; 4. on fol. 28a; 5. on fol. 33a; 6. on fol. 34a; 7. on fol. 38b; 8. on fol. 39b; 9. on fol. 41a; 10. on fol. 52b; 11. on fol. 61a; 12. on fol. 76a; 13. on fol. 82a; 14. on fol. 94a ; 15. on fol. 115b; 16. on fol. 120a; 17. Abû ‘Alî Shaḳîḳ (as in the index of the preceding copy), on fol. 124a; 18-20. Missing although the catch-words are all right; 21. on fol. 129a ; 22. on fol. 132a; 23. on fol. 134a; 24. on fol. 137b; 25. on fol. 138a; 26.Muḥammad bin Ḥarb (in the index correctly, Aḥmad bin Ḥarb), on fol. 139a; 27. on fol. 140b; 28. Isma’îl bin ‘Abdallâh Sirrî, on fol. 144a; 29. on fol. 154a; 30. on fol. 156b; 31. on fol. 161b; 32. on fol. 162b; 33. on fol. 163b; 34. on fol. 167a; 35. on fol. 169b; 36. on fol. 176a; 37. on fol. 178a; 38. on fol. 181b; 39. on fol. 185b; 40. on fol. 187a; 41. on fol. 188b; 42. on fol. 190a; 43. on fol. 190b; 44. on fol. 207a; 45. Missing; 46. Abû-alḥusain Thaurî (in the index correctly, Nûrî), on fol. 210b; 47. ‘Uthmân (instead of Abû ‘Uthmân) Ḥîrî, on fol. 212a; 48. on fol. 214a; 49. Ibn ‘Aṭṭâr, both in text and index, on fol. 215b; 50. on fol. 219a; 51. on fol. 220a; 52. on fol. 220b; 53. Abû Ya’ḳûb bin Isḥaḳ, on fol. 222a; 54. on fol. 223b; 55. on fol. 225a; 56. on fol. 226a; 57. on fol. 226b, last line; 58. on fol. 227b; 59. on fol. 232a; 60. on fol. 234a; 61. on fol. 235a; 62. Abû-alkhair Nassâj, on fol. 235b; 63. on fol. 236b; 64.=66 in No. 1051 above; 65.=64 in the same copy, on fol. 238a; 66.=65 in the same copy, on fol. 239a; 67. ‘Abdallâh Aḥmad Maghribî, as in No. 65 of the preceding copy, on fol. 239b; 68. on fol. 240b; 69. on fol. 241a; 70. on fol. 243b. Beginning as in the two preceding copies. No date. No. 1271, ff. 248, ll. 17; irregular Nasta’lîḳ, written by different hands; size, 107/8 in. by 63/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1023] ديوان كمال اسمعيل

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1055 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 1023 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1055 Dîwân-i-Kamâl Isma’îl (ديوان كمال اسمعيل). The lyrical poems of Kamâl-aldîn Isma’îl bin Jamâl-aldîn Muḥammad bin ‘Abd-alrazzâḳ of Iṣfahân, who was a pupil of Suhrâwardi, panegyrist of the Ṣâ’id family, and is usually called خلاّق المعانى. He was tortured to death by the Moghuls, A.H. 635 (A.D. 1237, 1238); comp. Haft Iḳlim, No. 870, col. 441 in this Cat.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 638-643; Rieu ii. p. 581; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 783; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 454; see also Butkhâna, No. 23 in Bodleian Cat., col. 199, and Âtashkada, No. 416, ib., col. 297. This dîwân consists of the following parts: 1.Ḳaṣîdas and tarkibbands, on fol. 1b, with a short mathnawî and two ḳiṭ’as at the end. Beginning of the first ḳaṣîdah: اى جلال تو بيانها را زبان انداخته عزّت ذاتت يقين را در گمان انداخته Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 209a: تا زبانم بكام جنبانست – در ثناء رئيس لنبانست 2. A large series of ḳiṭ’as, intermixed with a few ghazals, on fol. 213b. Beginning: عشّاق كه قدر دل شناسند – دل از غم يار بر نگيرند 3. Ghazals, without any order, on fol. 319b, beginning: اى دل و جان بياد تو زنده الخ. 4. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 359b, beginning: اى مدح تو آورده قلم را بسخن الخ. Dated by Sulṭân ‘Alî of Mashhad, A.H. 905 (A.D. 1499, 1500). No. 1023, ff. 412, 2 coll., each ll. 17; beautiful and clear Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part, a vignette on fol. 1a, all the headings throughout in gold; size, 10 in. by 63/4 in.

[IO Islamic 776] جواهر الذات

<ul> <li>Jawâhir-aldhât.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1048 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 776 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1048 Another copy of the Hailâjnâma, or third daftar of the Jawâhir-aldhât. Beginning: بنام كردگار فرد بيچون الخ. On fol. 31b there appears as another title for this daftar, or rather for the whole of the Jauhar-i-Dhât, just as in Rieu’s copy of the first daftar, جواهر نامه, see above, No. 1031, 17 (جواهر نامه هست اسرار منصور). Dated the 2nd of Ṣafar, A.H. 902 (A.D. 1496, Oct. 10). No. 776, ff. 342, 2 coll., each ll. 12; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9¾ in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 111] جواهر الذات

<ul> <li>Jawâhir-aldhât.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1047 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 111 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1047 Another copy of the second daftar of the Jawâhir-aldhât. This copy begins: تعالى الله زهى ديدار پر نور الخ. Dated the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1021 (A.D. 1612, December 4). No. 111, fol. 113, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the last pages a little injured; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 203] ديوان شمس تبريز

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1109 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 203 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1109 Dîwân-i-Shams-i-Tabrîz (ديوان شمس تبريز). An excellent and very rich collection of the minor or lyrical poems of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, usually styled ديوان شمس تبريز, since the poet uses as takhalluṣ in his ghazals the name of his spiritual guide, Shams-aldîn of Tabrîz (whose death is commonly fixed in A.H. 645=A.D. 1247, 1248), but of course known also as ديوان مولانا رومى or ديوان جلال الدين رومى ; other copies of the whole or of extracts of this dîwân are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 673-675; Rieu ii. p. 593 sq.; W. Pertsch, p. 69, and Berlin Cat., pp. 798 and 799; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 497; G. Flügel i. p. 522 sq.; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 113; J. Aumer, p. 16; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 214; Krafft, p. 65 etc. The whole dîwân has been lithographed in Lucknow, 1879; one of the Tarjî’ât has been printed in Ṭahrân, A.H. 1274. Select poems have been edited, with metrical German translation, by Vincenz von Rosenzweig, in ‘Auswahl aus den Diwanen des grössten mystischen Dichters Persiens, Mewlana Dschelaleddin Rumi,’ Vienna, 1838; others have been poetically reproduced in German by Rückert etc. Contents: Preface in prose, by the anonymous editor of this collection, who compiled it in Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 817 (A.D. 1414, May, June), comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 673; beginning:حمد موفور و ثناى نامحصور پاك از وصمت فتور و قصور الخ. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 6b, beginning: شاه جسم و جان ما خندان كن دندان ما (MS. اى) سرمه كش چشمان ما اى چشم جانرا توتيا Tarji’ât, on fol. 482a, beginning: شاهد ما زرخ گرفت نقاب – گر خورشيد پرتوى برتاب A few ḳiṭ’as at the end of this part. Rubâ’îs and some fards, on fol. 494a, beginning: در مذهب عشّاق قرارى دگرست وين بادۀ ناب را خمارى دگرست No date. This MS. was purchased at Ḥaidarâbâd, the 25th of June, 1784, for forty rupees. No. 203, ff. 505, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 34; Nasta’lîḳ; two illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 6b; size 95/8 in. by 5 in.

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[IO Islamic 143] كلّيّات سعدى

<ul> <li>Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1127 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 143 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1127 The same. This collection is different from all the preceding ones, since a considerable number of the usual items are entirely missing, and some altogether new parts have been introduced. The copy contains: 1.Bûstân, on fol. 1b, beginning: بنام جهاندار جان آفرين الخ 2.Gulistân, on fol. 74b. 3.Dîwân, consisting of: a. Persian ḳaṣidas, on fol. 131b, beginning: اوّل دفتر الخ. b.Tarjî’ât, on fol. 153a margin, beginning: در عهد تو ای نگار دلبند-بس عهد که بشکند وسوگند (corresponding to the second poem in No. 1117 in this Cat., fol. 346b). c. Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 158b, comprising, as the same part in Nos. 1120 and 1121 in this Cat. does, the Ṭayyibât, Badâ’i’, Khawâtîm, and early ghazals; the initial ghazal is the second in No. 1121, fol. 207a: اى نفس خرّم باد صبا – از بر يار آمدۀ مرحبا d. Muḳaṭṭ’ât, on fol. 278a, beginning likewise as in No. 1121: سخن بذكر تو الخ. e.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 285b, beginning, as in No. 1121: (in No. 1121 جهانرا ) خداونديست تدبيردهانرا . 4.The second risâlah, in five مجلس , on fol. 293b, beginning:.الحمد لله الذى خلق الوجود الخ 5.Another risâlah, on fol. 304b, which contains, like the usual third risâlah, a story not by Sa’dî himself, but referring to the poet’s intercourse with renowned personages (see Bacher’s remark in his ‘Sa’dî-Studien,’ p. 85), but different in wording from the third in the preceding copies; it begins: اى دل مجرّد طريقت طريقت وسالك كوى حقيقت شهباز جانباز هماى ره شيراز مصلح الدين سعدى شيرازى عليه الرّحمة و الغفران ميگوید بگوش هوش بشنو الخ. 6.The fifth risâlah, در نصيحة الملوك, on fol. 307b, beginning here: الحمد لله و هوا لى من حمد ثمّ الصّلوة على رسول الله افضل الخ. 7.Pandnâma (پندنامه), or book of counsels, also called, from the word with which it begins, Karîmâ (كريما) or Kitâb-i-Karîmâ; beginning, on fol. 313b : كريما ببخشاى بر حال ما – كه هستم اسير كمند هوا The authorship of Sa’dî with regard to this didactic mathnawî, which is apparently composed after the model of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr’s Pandnâma, has been much disputed; it is not included in Bîsutûn’s (or Ibn Bisutûn’s) edition; on the other hand, as Rieu ii. p. 865b has shown, it has been ascribed to Sa’dî as early as A.H. 842 (A.D. 1438, 1439), and it is found in the Calcutta edition (fol. ٢٠٠ sq.); other text-editions (printed or lithographed): in Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee (with English translation), 1801; revised edition, by W.C. Smyth, 1840; see also Rousseau, Flowers of Persian Literature, London, 1801, and the Persian and Reader, vol. i, Calcutta, 1835, pp. 78-97; Persian and Hindûstânî, ib., 1829; Persian with Latin translation, by Geitlin, Helsingfors, 1835; Calcutta, A.H. 1242 and 1270 (with Rekhta translation) in the ‘Persian Primer,’ Lucknow, A.H. 1263, 1264, etc.; Lahore, 1887; Bombay, 1887; Agra, 1887; Cawnpore, 1888, etc. An older English translation, Calcutta, 1788. French translation, by Garcin de Tassy, in his ‘Exposition de la foi musulmane,’ Paris, 1822, and in the same author’s ‘Allégories, récits poétiques et chants populaires,’ 2nd ed., Paris, 1876, pp. 197-200. A metrical German translation of select passages of the Pandnâma is found in the notes to K.H. Graf, Rosengarten, Leipzig, 1846, pp. 239, 244, 253, 260, 281, 293, and 297-298; comp. besides Zenker i. 418 sq. and 1468, ii. 480 sq.; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 688. 12 and 748; Rieu ii. p. 865b; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 803 and 825 A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 549. 8.Short mathnawîs, on fol. 317b, beginning: نامه آغازم بنام ذوالجلال آنكه بيرون ذاتش از وهم و خيال 9.Khabîthât (or Muṭâyabât), here wrongly styled Hazliyyât, on fol. 324b, beginning with the usual prose-preface: قال السّعدى الزمنى الخ. No date. There are wanting in this copy the usual risâlas, except the second and the fifth; the Marâthî, Mufradât, Hazliyyât, Ṣâḥibiyyah, Mulamma’ât, Muḍḥikât, and the Arabic ḳaṣîdas. No. 143, ff. 330, 2 centre-coll., each ll.17, and a third on the margin, ll. 26; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces and small headings on ff. 1b, 74b, 131b, 293b, 304b, 313b, and 317b; size, 11¼ in. by 7 in.

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[IO Islamic 530] شرح بستان

<ul> <li>Sharḥ-i-Bustân.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1150 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 530 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1150 Sharḥ-i-Bustân (شرح بستان). ‘Abd-alwâsi’ Hânsawi’s commentary on the Bûstân, beginning, on fol. 41b: ربّنا لا تواخذنا إن نسينا او اخطانا و صلّ على نبيّك و رسولك محمّد سيّدنا و مولانا و على آله و اصحابه الخ ميگويد معترف بعجز و نادانى در فهم الفاظ و درك معانى عبدالواسع هانسوى كه الخ ; comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 552. ‘Abd-alwâsi’ of Hânsî (see above, col. 403) is also the author of the غرائب اللغات, an alphabetical glossary of Hindî words with Persian explanation, improved and re-edited by Sirâj-aldîn ‘Alî Ârzû, and of a Persian Grammar, printed 1851 in Cawnpore, comp. Rieu iii. pp. 1030a and 1096b. The text of the Bûstân (introduction) begins, on fol. 42b: بنام جهاندار جان آفرين ; Book I, on fol. 61a; II, on fol. 106b; III, on fol. 130a; IV, on fol. 149a; V, on fol. 171a; VI, on fol. 182a; VII, on fol. 188b; VIII, on fol. 206b; IX, on fol. 216a; X, on fol. 218a. Fol. 50b is left blank, but there is no lacuna. Not all verses, but only the difficult ones, are explained by the commentator. This copy was finished after a careful collation by Muḥammad Naṣîr, the son of Sayyid Lutf-allâh, who was also an inhabitant of Hânsî, the 8th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727, Sept. 25). On fol. 220 a fragment in Hindûstânî: خيال بزبان هندى. No. 530, ff. 41-220, ll. 11; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages sprinkled with gold; size, 8½ in. by 4½ in.