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[IO Islamic 950] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1670 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 950 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1670</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the abridged Bahâdurshâhnâma.</span></p> <p><span>The same abridgment of the Bahâdurshâhnâma, as in No. 1659, 1, beginning in the same way:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم </span></span></span><span><span>–</span></span><span><span><span> دست بر آورده بجود كريم الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>In the colophon it is styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ادشاهنامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No. 950, ff. 74, ll. 13; large and distinct </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7</span><sup><span>3/4</span></sup><span> in. by 4</span><sup><span>1/8</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3056] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1668 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3056 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1668</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>Quite modern copy, not dated.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3056, ff. 1-43, ll. 11; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8</span><sup><span>1/4</span></sup><span> in. by 6</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3057] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1667 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3057 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1667</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>Modern copy, not dated. Only the first five days are marked here, but in the following strange way: 14th of Rajab (on fol.1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>), 15th (on fol.7</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>), 19th (on fol.14</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>), 14th of Sha’</span><span>bân (on fol. 17</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>) and 15th of Rajab again (on fol. 23</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>); the other headings are missing.</span></p> <p><span>No. 3057, ff. 1-56, ll. 13; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in. by 5</span><sup><span>1/2</span></sup><span> in.</span><span> </span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2556] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1666 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2556 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1666</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>وقائع ايّام محاصر</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>دارالجهاد حيدرآباد تأريخ سيزدهم رجب سن</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span>٣٠</span><span><span><span>׳</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>دمى كه مدرّس الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>The days, marked here, are Rajab 13-15, Sha’</span><span>bân 14 (on fol. 56</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>), 19 (on fol. 61</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>), 21 (on fol. 67</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>), 22 (on fol. 73</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>), and 23.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 7th of </span><span>Ṣ</span><span>afar, A.H. 1207 (A.D. 1792, Sept. 24). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No.2556, ff. 39-91, ll. 12-14; Shikasta; size, 9</span><sup><span>1/2</span></sup><span> in. by 6</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2465] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1661 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2465 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1661</span></p> <p><span>A collection of Ni</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>matkhân </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlî</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s smaller works in prose.</span></p> <p><span>This copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>1.Wa</span><span>ḳâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>i</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>-i-Ḥaidarâbâd, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>. </span></p> <p><span>2.The prose-preface of the dîwân, on fol. 34</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning as in No. 2 of the preceding copy.</span></p> <p><span>3.Another prose-tract, identical with the </span><span><span><span><span><span>رسال</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>هجو حكما</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>or </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>satire on physician</span><span><span>’</span></span><span> (see Rieu ii. p. 744</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> and the remark to No. 1659, 3 above), on fol. 41</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حكيم على الاطلاق از دار الشفاى الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>4.</span><span>Ḥusn u </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Ishḳ, on fol. 43</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning as in No. 1659, 4.</span></p> <p><span>5.A third prose-tract, identical with the letter, quoted in Rieu ii. p. 796</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, No. IV, on fol. 52</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حكيم حقيقى مرزاى دوستان الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 9th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, June 15). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2465, ff. 54, ll. 21; large </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in. </span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2101] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1665 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2101 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1665</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>In this copy there are marked the following days:</span></p> <p><span>Rajab 13-15, Shawwâl 14 and 20-22. It concludes on fol. 62</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>; ff. 63</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-69</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> contain some </span><span><span><span><span><span>رقعات</span></span></span></span></span><span>, one of which bears the date A.H. 1100 (A.D. 1689), on fol. 64</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, l. 9, and a portion of </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usn u ‘</span><span>Ish</span><span>ḳ, beginning, on fol. 67</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, l. 3 ab infra: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حديث عشق شد الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>No colophon, but at the bottom of the last page a seal of Mîr Shams-aldîn ‘Alîkhân Wâlâjâhî is found, with the date A.H. 1190 (A.D. 1776).</span></p> <p><span>No. 2101, ff. 69, ll. 13; Shikasta, by two different hands; size, 8</span><sup><span>3/8</span></sup><span> in. by 5 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 284] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1664 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 284 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1664</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 15th of Rajab in the twenty-first year of Mu</span><span>ḥammadshâh’</span><span>s reign (=A.H. 1152, A.D. 1739, Oct. 18).</span></p> <p><span>No. 284, ff. 1-56, ll. 13; careless </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¾ in. by 4 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 683] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1663 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 683 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1663</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the Wa</span><span>ḳâ’i’-i-Ḥaidarâbâd.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning as usual. Dated the 14th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1135 (A.D. 1723, July 18).</span></p> <p><span>No. 683, ff. 115-166, ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 8</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in. by 4</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in. </span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1835] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1662 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1835 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1662</span></p> <p><span>Another collection of the same kind.</span></p> <p><span>This copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>1.A prose-tract, styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>ديبا</span></span></span><span><span><span>چۀ </span></span></span><span><span><span>بياض</span></span></span></span></span><span>, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>سبحان الله دلير ساله را الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>2.Wa</span><span>ḳâ’I’-i-Ḥaidarâbâd, on fol. 9</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>.</span></p> <p><span>3.The same prose-tract, as No. 5 in the preceding copy, on fol. 67</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning here: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حكيم حقيقى آن مرزاى دوستان الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>4.The </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>satire on physicians,</span><span><span>’</span></span><span> on fol.70</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning as No. 3 in the preceding copy: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حكيم على الاطلاق از دار الشفاى الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>5.Ḥusn u </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Ishḳ, on fol. 73</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>. No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 1835, ff. 83, ll. 13-20; written by different hands in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 490] انتخاب ديوان واضح
<ul> <li>Intikhâb-i-Dîwân-i-Wâḍiḥ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1675 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 490 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1675</span></p> <p><span>Intikhâb-i-Dîwân-i-Wâ</span><span>ḍiḥ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>انتخاب ديوان واضح</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Extracts from the lyrical poems of Wâ</span><span>ḍiḥ, made A.H. 1098 (A.D.1687) by his teacher and friend Zamân Râsikh; comp. fol. 2</span><sup><span>a </span></sup><span>in preface, and the remark thereupon in the preceding copy. Râsikh states besides, that he carried these extracts always with him as a token of his friendly feelings towards the author.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>The same preface, noticed in the preceding copy, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>واضح صاحب كمالان الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, rubâ’îs, and fards, in alphabetical order, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى خشك زمان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(</span><span><span><span><span><span>زبان</span></span></span></span></span><span>sic ! for) </span><span><span><span><span><span>ساخته مقصه</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span> طالبانرا </span></span></span></span></span><span>(</span><span><span><span><span><span>طلبانرا </span></span></span></span></span><span>read</span><span>) </span><span><span><span><span><span>الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>This copy is dated A.H. 1152 (A.D. 1739, 1740).</span></p> <p><span>No. 490, ff. 1-31, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta; size, 8</span><sup><span>3/8</span></sup><span> in. by 4</span><sup><span>3/4</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1671] ديوان خالص
<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Khâliṣ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1673 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1671 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1673</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the same dîwân.</span></p> <p><span>This copy contains the same ghazals,</span><span> ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, and fards mixed together in alphabetical order as the preceding one. Beginning the same: </span><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>نان دارند الخ</span></span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 5th of Muḥarram in the tenth year of the first ḳarn of Muḥammadshâh’</span><span>s reign, that is, A.H. 1141 (A.D. 1728, Aug. 11), at Shâhjahânâbâd.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span>No. 1671, ff. 151, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Shikasta, nearly illegible in many places; size, 10 in. by 5¾ in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 725] ديوان خالص
<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Khâliṣ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1672 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 725 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1672</span></p> <p><span>Dîwân-i-Khâli</span><span>ṣ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان خالص</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Lyrical poems by Mirzâ Sayyid </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usain, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Khâliṣ, who went under </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlamgîr from Persia to India, obtained the title of Imtiyâzkhân, and was under Bahâdurshâh raised to the rank of a master of the horse (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مير آخور </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ادشاهى</span></span></span></span></span><span>); on his way back to Persia he was killed, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710, 1711); the chronogram of his death is </span><span><span><span><span><span>آه آه امتيازخان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, see Khulâ</span><span>ṣat-alkalâm, No. 25 (col. 297 in the Bodleian Cat.); and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 111, 121, 141, and 150; other copies of his dîwân are noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 460, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 937 and 938; some of his ghazals, ib., p. 700, No. 27. This dîwân consists of ghazals, intermixed with ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, and fards, all in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 136</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>نان دارند شوق وصل بسم الله عنوانها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كه در </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رواز آيند از دو بال جلد ديوانها</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>(This initial bait agrees, as Sprenger has noticed, verbatim with that of A</span><span>ṭharkhân bin Amîr Ni</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>âm aldîn Raḍawî</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s dîwân, see ib., p. 345.) The mathnawîs of Khâliṣ (see A. Sprenger, loc. cit., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 698, No. 17) are not found in this or the following copy.</span></p> <p><span>Dated A.H. 1138 (A.D. 1725, 1726) at Shâhjahânâbâd.</span></p> <p><br><br></p> <p><span>No.725, ff. 136-202, 2 coll., each ll. 12, and a third on the margin of ff. 138</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-161</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 162</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 163</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-174</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, 176</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> and </span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, 178</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-180</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, 180</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>-187</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, 192</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>-193</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, and 195</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> and </span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, differing in lines from 2 to 32; ff. 136-187 on white, the rest on rest on red paper; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8</span><sup><span>3/8</span></sup><span> in. by 4</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1359] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى
<ul> <li>Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1671 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1359 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1671</span></p> <p><span>A single </span><span>ḳiṭ’as by the same Ni</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>matkhân </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlî, containing a satirical attack upon Kâmgârkhân, the son of Ja</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>farkhân, at the occasion of his marriage, accompanied by a detailed Persian commentary by an unknown author. The latter begins: </span><span><span><span><span><span>شرح قطع</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تأريخ كدخدائئ كام</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ارخان ولد جعفرخان كه ميرزا محمّد مخاطب بنعمت خان متخلّص بعالى در سلك نظم آورده الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlî</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s satire:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كدخدا شد بار دي</span></span></span><span><span><span>گر </span></span></span><span><span><span>خان عالى منزلت</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>بالكمال و عزّو تمكين و وقار و زيب و زين</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Dated A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777).</span></p> <p><span>No. 1359, ff. 188-196, ll. 17; distinct </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8</span><sup><span>3/8</span></sup><span> in by 4</span><sup><span>3/4</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 558] انتخاب كلّيّات واضح
<ul> <li>Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Wâḍiḥ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1674 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 558 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1674</span></p> <p><span>Intikhâb-i-Kulliyyât-i-Wâ</span><span>ḍiḥ (</span><span><span><span><span><span>انتخاب كلّيّات واضح</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>Large selections from the complete poetical works of Mîr Mubârak-allâh, with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ Wâḍiḥ, and the honorary title of Irâdatkhân, which was originally borne by his father Mîr Isḥâḳ Irâdatkhân (who died as Nâ</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>im of Oude A.H. 1068=A.D. 1657, 1658), and bestowed upon the poet by the emperor </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlamgîr, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696 , 1697). He died in Farrukhsiyar</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s reign, A.H. 1128 (A.D. 1716), see Rieu iii. p. 938; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 130, 151, 160, and 583; Makhzan-algharâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ib, No. 2990 (col. 392 in the Bodleian Cat.) In poetry he was a pupil of Mîr Muḥammad Zamân Râsikh (see above, No. 1649), and wrote besides his poetical works a volume of historical memoirs, covering the period from </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Âlamgîr</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s death, A.H. 1118 (A.D. 1707), to Farrukhsiyar</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s entrance into Dihlî, in Muḥarram, A.H. 1125 (A.D. 1713, Febr.), styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>مقتل السّلاطين</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, and completed A.H. 1126 (A.D. 1714), see Rieu, loc. cit. (it appeared in a condensed translation by Jonathan Scott, London, 1780; comp. also Elliot, History of India, vii. pp. 534-544). The statement in the preface, on fol. 2</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> that Zamân Râsikh made this selection in A.H. 1098 (A.D. 1687) refers not to the present collection, but to the much smaller extracts in the following copy, to which the preface originally belonged and from where it has been transferred into this. That such is the case, is evident from the inclusion of the Sâ</span><span>ḳînâma (on fol. 106</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span> sq.), which was completed A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1695, 1696). Sprenger</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s statement, that among Wâḍiḥ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs is a chronogram for A.H. 1134 (A.D. 1721, 1722), must be due to a mistake, as all tadhkiras agree about his death having taken place under Farrukhsiyar, and the ta</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>rîkh in question, as it is worded on fol. 584 of his Catal., gives the impossible date of 1183 (!)</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>1.Preface, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>واضح صاحب كمالان بلند خيال است كه هر نموديرا الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>2.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 2</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>كى </span></span></span><span><span><span>گر</span></span></span><span><span><span>دد از عزيمت من سست نيم نار الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, intermixed with rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, on fol. 20</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>اى خشك زبان ساخته مقصد طلبانرا</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رداب عدم كرده سراب دو جهانرا</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>4.Another short collection of ghazals and rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, in alphabetical order, with a short preface in prose, on fol. 94</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حمد صانعى كه ربع مسكون سخت را </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ون سرير عرش نظير ديبا</span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ه الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the initial poem, on fol. 95</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>بسم الله اين رباعئ عنصر ما الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span>The last two parts fill in Sprenger</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s copy more than twice the number of leaves.</span></p> <p><span>5.Sâ</span><span>ḳînâma (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ساقينامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), with preface, completed A.H. 1107 (A.D. 1695, 1696); beginning of the preface, on fol. 106</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>شربنا على ذكر الحبيب مدامة سكرنا بها من قبل الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 111</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>بهشيار مستى كه ناك آفريد الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span>6.Six other mathnawîs of mystic tendency, preceded by a preface, which begins, on fol. 114</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>عشقست جمال كمالى را كه صفاى حيرت فزاى قلوب عشّاق الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>If the remark of the Hamîsha Bahâr, that Wâḍiḥ wrote a mathnawî in six daftars, should apply to this poem, then the six, enumerated here, would form </span><span><em>one</em></span><span> mathnawî, viz. the </span><span><span><span><span><span>آئين</span></span></span><span><span><span>ۀ را</span></span></span><span><span><span>ز</span></span></span></span></span><span>; but the difference of metre especially between the </span><span><em>first</em></span><span>, </span><span><em>second</em></span><span>, and </span><span><em>third</em></span><span> speaks against this assumption; at any rate, the </span><span><em>first</em></span><span>, being longer than the five following ones together, seems to be a separate and independent poem.</span></p> <p><span><em>First</em></span><span> mathnawî, on fol. 121</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, styled Â</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>ina-i-râz (</span><span><span><span><span><span>آئين</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>راز</span></span></span></span></span><span>), </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>the mirror of secrecy,</span><span><span>’</span></span><span> commenced A.H. 1075 (A.D. 1664, 1665), and completed A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668); it begins: </span></p> <p><span><span><span>بنام آنكه دل آئينه سازست</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>نظر بازنهانى جمله رازست</span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Second</em></span><span> mathnawî, on fol. 169</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بشنو از نائى كه </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ون نى در دميد الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Third</em></span><span>, on fol. 184</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>اى مطلع فكر خوش خيالان الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Fourth</em></span><span>, on fol. 195</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى زبيرن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ئ تو رن</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span> همه الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Fifth</em></span><span>, on fol. 199</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>لوح</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>ديوان كلام قديم الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><em>Sixth</em></span><span>, on fol. 201</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>قل هو الله احد الخ</span></span></span></p> <p><span>No date.</span></p> <p><span>No. 558, ff. 202, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 13½ in. by 7 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 410] محيط اعظم
<ul> <li>Muḥîṭ-i-a’żam</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1682 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 410 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1682</span></p> <p><span>Mu</span><span>ḥîṭ-i-a</span><span><span>’</span></span><span><span>ż</span></span><span>am (</span><span><span><span><span><span>محيط اعظم</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>The great ocean, a mystical mathnawî or rather a kind of sâ</span><span>ḳ</span><span>î</span><span>nâma, interwoven with short tales, by B</span><span>î</span><span>dil, beginning: </span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>خوش آندم كه در بزم</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>اه قدم</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>مئ بود بى نشاء و كيف و كم</span></span></span></p> <p><span>The title is a chronogram for A.H. 1078 (A.D. 1667, 1668), see the prose-preface of the following copy (fol. 33</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, l. 5: </span><span><span><span><span><span>سال اتمام بنامش مدغم</span></span></span></span></span><span>). Dated the 19th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1161 (A.D. 1748, Oct. 12).</span></p> <p><span>No. 410, ff. 204, 2 coll., each ll. 15; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10</span><sup><span>1/8</span></sup><span> in. by 6</span><sup><span>5/8</span></sup><span> in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 574] رباعيّات بيدل
<ul> <li>Rubâ’iyyât-i-Bîdil</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1681 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 574 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1681</span></p> <p><span>Rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>iyyât-i-Bîdil (</span><span><span><span><span><span>رباعيّات بيدل</span></span></span></span></span><span>).</span></p> <p><span>One of the most complete collections of Bîdil</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs extant, containing nearly 3,500 epigrams in a strictly alphabetical order. Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>آنكس كه منزّه است از آب و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ل ما</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>بى او عدم است خلوت و محفل ما</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Dated the 17th of Mu</span><span>ḥarram, A.H. 1126 (A.D. 1714, Febr. 2), by Muḥammad Wârith bin Muḥammad Bâḳir alṣadîḳî.</span></p> <p><span>No. 574, ff. 288, six rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs in every page; clear and distinct Naskhî; size, 12</span><sup><span>1/4</span></sup><span> in. by 6</span><sup><span>3/8</span></sup><span> in. </span><span> </span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2397] محيط اعظم
<ul> <li>Muḥîṭ-i-a’żam</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1683 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2397 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1683</span></p> <p><span>Another copy of the same.</span></p> <p><span>This copy, which is much smaller than the preceding one, contains the same prose-preface as Sprenger’</span><span>s, beginning, on fol. 32</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حمد ثناء آفرينى كه ميخان</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>حقيقت انسانى را الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 33</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, the same as in the preceding copy.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 26th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, April 5), by Muḥammad Ja’</span><span>far Rif’atî.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2397, ff. 32-74, 2 centre-columns, each ll. 15, and a margin-column, ll. 28; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 9</span><sup><span>1/4</span></sup><span> in. by 5 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2397] ديوان بيدل
<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Bîdil</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1680 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2397 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1680</span></p> <p><span>Short extracts from Bîdil’s dîwân.</span></p> <p><span>A small collection of ghazals and rubâ’</span><span>îs, the former arranged alphabetically. Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>بخيال </span></span></span><span><span><span>چشم که الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Rubâ’îs, on fol. 27</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>. No date. On fol. 31</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> the seal of a former owner, Ḳâsim </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Alî Mîrkhân, with the date, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</span></p> <p><span>No. 2397, ff. 1-31, 2 coll., each ll. 15; </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 9¼ in. by 5 in.</span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 355] ديوان بيدل
<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Bîdil</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1678 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 355 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1678</span></p> <p><span>Dîwân-i-Bîdil (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان بيدل</span></span></span></span></span><span>). </span></p> <p><span>Another collection of Mirzâ Bîdil’</span><span>s lyrical poems, containing:</span></p> <p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol.1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning, as in Sprenger</span><span><span><span><span><span>׳</span></span></span></span></span><span>s copy and in the first of the Berlin collection:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>باوج كبريا كز </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هلوى عجزست راه اينجا</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>سر موى </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر اينجا خم شوى بشكن كلاه اينجا</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Rubâ’îs, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 192</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>.</span></p> <p><span>Dated by Ghulâm Muḥyi-ald</span><span>î</span><span>n ibn Muḥammad </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Abdallâh ibn Mu</span><span>ḥammad Waj</span><span>î</span><span>h-aldin the 7th of Dhû-alḥijjâh, A.H. 1192 (A.D. 1778, Dec. 27). </span></p> <p><span>No. 355, ff. 210, 2 coll., each ll. 19; careless Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta, the first leaves greatly injured; size, 11 in. by 6¼ in. </span></p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3387] ديوان بيدل
<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Bîdil</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1679 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3387 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1679</span></p> <p><span>The same.</span></p> <p><span>A third collection of Bîdil’</span><span>s lyrical poems, a kind of abridgement, in which the ghazals are much shorter than in the preceding ones and often mere fragments of the original poems, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى مرد</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>تكلّف از كيف و كم برون آ الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 149</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ردون در خاك ا</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر نشاند مارا الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>Corresponding to the second in the preceding copy, and the sixth in No. 1677. At the end the fragment of ḳaṣîdah.</span></p> <p><span>Dated the 6th of Rajab in the thirteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign=A.H. 1144 (A.D. 1732, Jan. 4).</span></p> <p><span>No. 3387, olim 13. J. 25, ff. 163, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4½ in. </span></p> <p> </p>
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