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[IO Islamic 1318] قصّۀ هير و رانجها

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Hîr-u-Rânjhâ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1724 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 1318 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1724 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Hîr u Rânjhâ (قصّۀ هير و رانجها). The story of two Panjabî lovers, Hîr and Rânjhâ (or Rânjahn), a romantic mathnawî by the same Minnat, composed A.H. 1195 (A.D. 1781), see the chronogram: قصّۀ عشق هير و رانجهن, and dedicated to Mr. R. Johnson. Beginning: خداوندا طلسم راز بگشاى – بمن سرّ نياز و ناز بنماى The oldest poetical version of this tale (the original of which was composed in Hindî by Damodar) in Persian is by Âfarîn (who died at Lâhûr A.H. 1154=A.D. 1741), written about A.H. 1143 (A.D. 1730, 1731), and sometimes styled ناز و نياز, see Rieu ii. p. 710; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 317. A Hindûstânî adaptation of the same by Maḳbûl has been translated by Garcin de Tassy, Revue de l׳Orient, 1857. Another Persian version, in prose and verse, was made A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744), by Mansârâm Munshî, see Rieu ii. p. 770b. No. 1318, ff. 27-65, ll. 15; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size 95/8 in. by 55/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 210] ديوان آفتاب

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Âftâb</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1727 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 210 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1727 Dîwân-i-Âftâb (ديوان آفتاب). The lyrical poems of the emperor Shâh ‘Âlam (reigned A.H. 1173-1221=A.D. 1759-1806), with the takhalluṣ Âftâb; see Bodleian Cat., No. 1195; Rieu ii. p. 720; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 318; J. Aumer, p. 40, etc. He is also known as a Hindûstânî poet, see Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Littér. Hindouie etc., i. p. 137, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 597, where besides his Rekhta dîwân a Rekhta mathnawî from his pen is also noticed, entitled منظوم اقدس, and containing the story of the king of China, Mużaffarshâh. This dîwân contains only ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning (as in the usual copies of Âftâb’s poems): الهى از كرم چون پادشاهى دادۀ مارا مطيع حكم ما از لطف كن اقليم دلهارا No date. Quite modern copy. No. 210, ff. 69, 2 coll., each ll. 13; very distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 6½ in.

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[IO Islamic 2914] مثنوئ كج كُلاه

<ul> <li>Mathnawî-i-Kajkulâh</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1725 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 2914 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1725 Mathnawî-i-Kajkulâh (مثنوئ كج كُلاه). The second volume (دفتر دويم) of a mystical mathnawî in imitation of Jalâl-aldîn’s famous mathnawî, containing stories of a theosophical and Ṣûfic tendency, by Ânandghana (آنندگهن, ‘cloud of happiness,’=ابر سرور, see fol. 56a, l. 12), with the takhalluṣ Khwush (خوش, see ib., l. 11), who completed this second volume in the month of Ṣafar, A.H. 1209 (A.D. 1794, September). The mathnawî bears the title of Kajkulâh or Kajkulah, ‘the fop who wears his cap awry’ (a designation often given to the mystic ‘lover of God,’ the advanced Ṣûfî), see ff. 30a, l. 9; 43b, l. 12; 49b, l. 11; 56a, ll. 5, 16, and 18, etc.; and was to contain seven volumes, see fol.56a, l. 9; the forthcoming third volume is announced in the last bait of this copy. This copy contains the following stories: 1.قصّۀ حضرت ضيا الحقّ و فرّخ شاه, disputation between Ḍiyâ-alḥaḳḳ and Farrukhshâh, on fol. 1b, beginning: بشنو از طوطى حكايت ميكند شكر گوید نه شكايت ميكند 2.حكايت سكندر پادشاه ذو القرنين , the story of Alexander Dhû-alḳarnain, and the four advices he gave to his sons and wazîrs in his last hour, on fol. 27a, beginning: اى عزيزان اين حكايت بشنويد اين نصيحت را بگوش جان دهيد 3.حكايت نانك شاه درويش و پادشاه, the story of the Darwish Nânakshâh and the Pâdishâh, on fol. 30a, beginning: بشنويد اى دوستان قصّه عجيب اين سوانح نيك مرد پر غريب 4.حكايت آن دهقان كه ارادۀ كُشتن ديگرى كرده بجاى آن پسر خود را كُشت, story of the Dihḳân, who wanted to kill another one and instead of that killed his own son, on fol. 33b, beginning: بشنويد اى دوستان قصّه غريب الخ. 5.قصّۀ پير مصرى و حضرت موسى, the story of the old Egyptian and Moses, on fol. 35a, beginning: بشنويد اى دوستان اين داستان الخ. 6.حكايت دارا شكوه بى اندوه وشاه لال درويش حقّ كيش, the story of prince Dârâ Shukûh and the Darwish Shâh Lâl, to whom the former puts three questions, on fol. 42b, beginning: اين حكايت پادشه هندوستان گوش داده بشنويد اين داستان بود يك شه نام آن دارا شكوه در تحمّل بردبارى هم چو كوه Prose-treatises, containing a debate of prince Dârâ Shukûh with Bâbâ La’l (لعل), on questions of Hindû theosophy, are described in Bodleian Cat., col. 758, No. 14; Rieu ii. p. 841b (where the Hindû sage is called La’ldâs, لعلداس), and iii. p. 1034a (where he is called, as here, Bâbâ Lâl); similar disputations of the prince are noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 45, No. 50 (where the Shaikh Muḥibb-allâh Allâhâbâdî is interviewed), and p. 1028, No. 2. 7.واعرابى (afterwards عيسى) حكايت حضرت موسى, the story of Moses (or rather of Jesus, as he is called in all the following headings) and the Bedouin and his wife, on fol. 43b, beginning: بشنويد اى دوستان در گوش جان. At the end the story is called قصّۀ مرد اعرابى و زن بدكار او’. 8.حكايت سليمان پير و سليمان پيغمبر, the story of old Solomon (the wood-merchant, هيزم فروش, as he is called) and Solomon the prophet (king Solomon), on fol. 49b, beginning: بشنويد اى دوستان اين داستان بهر حق جويان و مردم راستان A certain laxity in the metrical treatment, omission of Iḍâfas, etc., is conspicuous throughout the poem. This copy was transcribed by Bholanâth in the very year of composition, A.H. 1209, and finished the 16th of Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1794, Oct. 11). A large picture on fol. 1b. No. 2914, ff. 56, 4 coll., each ll. 23; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 121/2 in. by 91/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 54] ديوان منّت

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Minnat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1723 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 54 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1723 Dîwân-i-Minnat (ديوان منّت). The minor poems of Mîr Ḳamar-aldîn, with the takhalluṣ Minnat, who was born at Dihlî about A.H. 1159 (A.D. 1746), went to Lucknow A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777), was taken by Mr. Richard Johnson to Calcutta and introduced to the Governor-General Warren Hastings, who bestowed upon him the title of a ‘king of poets,’ and died A.H. 1207 (or according to others 1208=A.D. 1792-1794), comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 171, 258, 259, and 498. Contents: Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1b, beginning: زهى بسويتو هركس بغير تو محتاج گداى كويتو فارغ زننگ افسر و تاج A mathnawî, on fol. 65a, beginning: حَبّذّا صانع صورت گر معنى پرداز كه چنین ریخت سراپاى تو در قالب ناز Ghazals (with some mukhammasât and ḳiṭ’as at the end), on fol. 78b, arranged in alphabetical order, beginning: بآب زر سزد تحرير بسم الله عنوانها الخ. The initial poem of Sprenger’s copy is missing here. No date. The copyist was Mîr Wilâyat. No. 54, ff. 190, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Shikasta âmîz, written on brown paper, except the last twenty-one leaves; excellent frontispieces on ff. 1b and 78b; ff. 1b, 2a, 78b and 79a luxuriously illuminated with beautiful pictures on the margin in gold and other colours; all the pages column framed with gilt stripes; ff. 63b, 64, 77, and 78a left blank; size, 93/8 in. 55/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 1738] ديوان آزاد

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Âzâd</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1722 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 1738 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1722 Dîwân-i-Âzâd (ديوان آزاد). Lyrical poems by Mîr Ghulâm ‘Alî Ḥusainî Wâsiṭî Balgrâmî, with the takhalluṣ Âzâd, who has been mentioned already as the first editor of the مآثر الامرا and as author of the روضة الاوليا, the مآثر الكرام, the سرو آزاد, and the خزانۀ عامره (see above, Nos. 622 sq., 655, and 682-690); he died towards the end of A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1786, September). Contents: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning: بر آر از مدّ بسم الله تيغ خوشمقالى را مسخّر كن سواد اعظم نازك خيالى را A few rubâ’îs and ta’rîkhât, on fol. 94b sq. No date. This copy is probably Âzâd’s autograph, but another hand has supplied a few pages and also a great number of additional ghazals on the margin. Another copy of this dîwân in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 364. A detailed biography with a full list of Âzâd’s Persian works is noticed in Rieu iii. p. 978a (the غزلان الهند, mentioned there, is preserved in a copy of the Berlin Library, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 1001; it was composed A.H. 1177 (A.D. 1763, 1764). No. 1738, ff. 97, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 2668] بختيار نامه

<ul> <li>Bakhtyârnâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1726 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 2668  here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1726 Bakhtyârnâma (بختيار نامه). A very modern adaptation of the famous Bakhtyârnâma, see No. 859, 2 above, and Bodleian Cat., No. 475, 3 (col. 436), in Persian verse, made A.H. 1210 (see fol. 142a, l. 2)=A.D. 1795, 1796, by Kadkhudâ Marzubân (see the last verse but one of the poem). Beginning: بنام خداوند ربّ جليل – كه آتش گلستان كند بر خليل Copied in the same year (undoubtedly the author’s own copy), in the month Sha’bân, see the colophon on fol. 142a. Ff. 143a-154a contain another Persian poem, by the same poet, and composed as well as copied in the same year 1210, styled: قصّۀ خواجه سعيد و خواجه مسعود بازرگان و حكايت عوض الخير و حكايت سگ و عفريت. Beginning: ابتدا مى كنم بنام خدا آن خدائى كه هست بى همتا Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2668, ff. 154, 2 coll., each ll. 18-20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 125/8 in. by 73/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2551] تيپونامه

<ul> <li>Tîpûnâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1721 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 2551 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1721 The same. Beginning as usual. No date. The copyist was Mirzâ Muḥammad Isma’îl. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2551, ff. 97, 2 coll., each ll. 13-14; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 95/8 in. by 65/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 2509] تيپونامه

<ul> <li>Tîpûnâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1720 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 2509 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1720 Another copy of the same. The title تيپو نامه appears here on fol. 7a, l. 7, fol. 8a, l. 10, fol. 9b, lin. penult., etc. Beginning as in the preceding copy. No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2509, ff. 108, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/8 in. by 57/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 3057] تيپونامه

<ul> <li>Tîpûnâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1719 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> 1719 Tîpûnâma (تيپونامه). A mathnawî, composed in honour of the warlike exploits of Tîpû Sulṭân (see No. 1717 above), by Ghulâm Ḥasan, who (according to Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Littér. Hindouie etc., i. p. 543) is identical with Ḥasan ‘Alikhân of Kirmân. He wrote this poem at Tipû’s request, and finished it the 25th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, Aug. 12), see the last lines at the end. It is divided into forty-nine chapters, called داستان. The above title appears here on fol. 118a, l. 3, fol. 119b, I. 2, fol. 120b, I. 3 ab infra, and fol. 206a, l. 4 ab infra: كه تيپو نامه است اين نام مشهور. The heading of the forty-ninth or last dâstân gives the title as شه نامه بنام تيپو سلطان (the same in No. 1721 below); on fol. 119a, l. 2 ab infra appears as designation فتح نامۀ نامدار باسم پادشاه سلطان تيپو بهادر. The mathnawî is commonly styled فتح نامۀ تيپو سلطان. Beginning: بگويم حمد ربّ العالمين است ضيا بخشنده ايمان ما و طين است Dated the 14th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1221 (A.D. 1807, Jan. 23). A similar, but less extensive mathnawî in Rekhta verses, celebrating the exploits of Tîpû Sulṭân and composed by the same Ghulâm Ḥasan in twenty-three dâstân, is preserved in No. 2499 of the India Office Collection. Garcin de Tassy, loc. cit., seems only to have known this Hindûstânî version, but not the longer and more important Persian one. No. 3057, ff. 113-206, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 51/2 in.

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[IO Islamic 320] خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال

<ul> <li>Khulâṣa-i-Laṭâ’if-alkhayâl</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1739 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 320 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Persian Anthologies and Albums of Persian Poetry (Nos. 1739-1757). 1739 Khulâṣa-i-Laṭâ’if-alkhayâl (خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال). The revised and shorter edition of Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ’s anthology of Persian poets, arranged in form of an alphabetical dîwân, each specimen being headed by the name of the author (completed A.H. 1104=A.D. 1692, 1693, see the chronogram on fol. 16b, last line), by Muḥammad Naṣîr, with the takhalluṣ Nuṣrat, who A.H. 1157 (A.D. 1744) added to the original work a preface and two detailed indices, the first containing a list of the real names of the poets, quoted in the anthology, the second a list of their takhalluṣes, both in alphabetical order. A larger fragment of Muḥammad Ṣâliḥ’s original work, the لطائف الخيال , is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1143; comp. also Bland, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ix. P. 168. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 1b: اى از تو بلند تارك و تاج سخن – گوهر زتو يافت بحر موّاج سخن الخ. Beginning of the first index, on fol. 5a; of the second, on fol. 11a. Another short introduction, on fol. 15b. Beginning of the لطائف الخيال, on fol. 16b: حبّذا زين كتاب فرّخ فال – كه بود گلستان اهل كمال The whole anthology is divided into thirty-one جزء, copied (according to the notes on the margin) by different persons, as Madînabeg, Faḳîr Muḥammad, etc., but in a tolerably equal handwriting. A large lacuna after fol. 119. No. 320, ff. 237, 4 coll., each ll. 25; careless Nasta’lîḳ, sometimes resembling Shikasta; size, 145/8 in. by 101/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 1051] مرثيّه هاى حسين

<ul> <li>Marthiyyahâ-i-Ḥusain</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1738 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 1051 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1738 Marthiyyahâ-i-Ḥusain (مرثيّه هاى حسين). A collection of elegies on the martyrdom and death of the Imâm Ḥusain, ‘Alî’s son, no doubt belonging to that class of ta’ziyas, usually sung in the first ten days of Muḥarram, by an anonymous compiler. The first elegy begins: السّلام اى حضرت شاه شهيدان السّلام السّلام اى مقتداى اهل ايمان السّلام The original collection ends on fol. 94a (تمام شد مرثيّه هاى حضرت حسين صلعم الخ), but on ff. 96 and 97 some more are added; comp. E. Polak, Persien, i. p. 341; H. Ethé, Morgenländische Studien, pp. 174-194; Bodleian Cat., No. 1218; Gobineau, Les Religious et les Philosophies dans l’Asie centrale, chap. 13 sq.; Chodzko, Théatre Persan, 1875 and 1878; Sir Lewis Pelly and A. N. Wollaston, The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain, 2 vols., London, 1879. No. 1051, ff. 97, diagonal lines in 4 coll., usually 16 baits in each page; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¾ in. by 47/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 735] مصطفى نامه

<ul> <li>Muṣṭafâ-nâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1737 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 735 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1737 Muṣṭafâ-nâma (مصطفى نامه). A very long and curious mathnawî, a rhymed Muḥammadan history from Muḥammad down to the first Sulṭâns of the Ghaznawide and Saljûḳ dynasties, together with biographies of famous Saints and Shaikhs, by an anonymous author. Beginning: بنام خداوند فتح وفلاح كنم مصطفى نامه را افتتاح This copy is apparently the first rough sketch of the poet, as not only many blanks are found, but also a great number of unfinished single verses, of which often only the first word is written. Moreover the arrangement of the whole poem is rather confused; in the last part, for instance, after the history of the Khalîfs, the Sâmanide, Ghaznawide, and Saljûḳ rulers the author gives us a detailed story of Moses. It breaks off in the beginning of an incomplete bait, the initial word of which is كنون. No. 735, ff. 485, 4 coll., each ll. 31; clear Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages richly illuminated; size, 14¼ in. by 9 in.

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[IO Islamic 2539] خلاصۀ لطائف الخيال

<ul> <li>Khulâṣa-i-Laṭâ’if-alkhayâl</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1740 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 2539 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1740 Another copy of the preface, indices, and introduction of the same. Preface, on fol. 1a, beginning as in the preceding copy. The indices begin on fol. 13b. The copy concludes with the initial bait of the لطائف and the chronogram for A.H. 1104. No. 2539, ff. 1-63, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10½ in. by 73/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 282] ديوان فائح

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Fâ’iḥ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1736 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 282 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1736 Dîwân-i-Fâ’iḥ (ديوان فائح). The dîwân of a Persian poet with the takhlluṣ Fâ’iḥ, who is not mentioned in any tadhkirah. It consists merely of ghazals, in alphabetical order, and is incomplete at the end, breaking off in the midst of the letter ك. Beginning:الهى زاتش دل آب ده تيغ زبانم را الخ. Many pages are severely injured; a great number of baits besides are crossed out. Some additional ghazals are found on the margin of the eight leaves. The last bait, which occurs here on fol. 175b, runs thus: تصوير ترا خواست كند نقش مصوّر شد بار وجود تو زنازك بدنى رنگ The proper order of ff. 40-47 is: 40, 45, 46, 41-44, 47. No. 282, ff. 175, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 1472] ديوان نبى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Nabî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1735 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 1472 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1735 Dîwân-i-Nabî (ديوان نبى). The lyrical poems of a poet with the takhalluṣ Nabî, who is not mentioned anywhere. They exclusively consist of ghazals, and very short ones too, so that any historical date or biographical intimation is quite out of question. The copy is defective at the beginning, opening in the middle of a ghazal rhyming in ا. The arrangement throughout is strictly alphabetical. No date whatever. According to the Arabic paging there are missing twenty-four leaves altogether in the beginning. No. 1472, ff. 404, 2 coll., each ll. 11; very uncouth and often almost unintelligible Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; many small damages; size, 71/8 in. by 47/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 95] غزليّات نسيم

<ul> <li>Ghazaliyyât-i-Nasîm</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1734 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 95 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Poets whose lifetime cannot be fixed, and anonymous poems. (Nos. 1734-1738.) 1734 Ghazaliyyât-i-Nasîm (غزليّات نسيم). Ghazals, by a poet with the takhalluṣ Nasîm, who cannot be identified. The following poets with this takhalluṣ are mentioned in the various tadhkiras: 1.Maulâna Nasîm of Astrâbâd (Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1182; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2773, Bodleian Cat., col. 386; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 130); he must have lived about A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1592). 2.Sayyid Ghulâm-Nabî, a descendant of Sayyid Muḥyî-aldîn ‘Abd-alḳâdir Jîlânî (Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2919, Bodleian Cat., col. 390; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 132). 3.Bûwâḳbeg (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 662, No. 131). 4.Sayyid Nasîm of Shîrâz (ib., p. 662, No. 133). 5.Nasîm-i-Rammâl (ib., p. 662, No. 134). 6.Mirzâ Aḥmad Nasîm (ib., p. 672, No. 98). 7.Mirzâ Ghulâm ‘Alî of Amrohah (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 160, l. 9), lived before A.H. 1174 (A.D. 1760, 1761). At the end of the ghazals, on fol. 89b, a ḳaṣîdah in honour of the late poet Jâmî (قصيده در مدح حضرت مخدومى جامى عليه الرّحمة), and some mathnawî-baits on fol. 92a. on ff. 93b and 94a short fragments of two prose-treatises are found, the first of which, styled نصائح الملوك, ‘advices to kings,’ is divided into forty bâbs, each of which contains four good advices, and is identical with the رسالۀ تحفة الملوك در نصيحت بند و بست ملك , described in the Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 45. Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين .... امّا بعد اين رساله ايست كه حكما از كتب قدما اختصار كرده اند الخ. A lacuna between ff. 93 and 94. No. 95, ff. 79-94, 2 coll., each ll. 15; quite illegible Shikasta; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 3226] مجموعۀ تصنيفات آخوند سيّد سيف الدّين كشميرى

<ul> <li>Majmû’a-i-taṣnîfât-i-Âkhund Sayyid Saif-aldîn Kashmirî</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1733 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 3226 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1733 Majmû’a-i-taṣnîfât-i-Âkhund Sayyid Saif-aldîn Kashmirî (مجموعۀ تصنيفات آخوند سيّد سيف الدّين كشميرى). The complete poetical and prose works of a modern Kashmîrian poet, Mîr Saif-aldîn Âkhund, with the takhalluṣ Saif (fol. 11a, l. 2), who lived at the time of writing this collection (i.e. A.H. 1270=A.D. 1854, see ff. 10b, 78a, etc.), in Lûdiyâna (لوديانه), in the province of Dihlî, one of the principal stations of the British territory on the north-western frontier. The poems are partly in Persian, partly in the modern Kashmîrian dialect, considerably mixed with Persian. Contents: 1.قطعات سلاميّه با صنائع و رموز حروف سلام, on fol. 1b, a number of twenty-three highly artificial Persian ḳiṭ’as setting forth the hidden meaning and the secret qualities of the letters in the words سلام (ḳiṭ’as 1-19), تحيّة (ḳiṭ’as 20 and 21), دعا (ḳiṭ’ah 22), and الهى (ḳiṭ’ah 23), with a detailed commentary on the margin and numerous interlinear paraphrases and glosses. It is concluded by a short epilogue in prose (on fol. 11a), in which the author state that he composed the first eleven ḳiṭ’as during a severe fever, and the last twelve as a token of gratitude for his recovery. Beginning of the first ḳiṭ’ah: سلام تافته انوار بسم از سينش خواصّ اللّهش از لام بر زده اعلام Written by the author himself in the month Shawwâl, A.H. 1270 (July, 1854), see fol. 10b. 2.شرح منظوم چيستان مُغْلَق , on fol. 12b, a Persian poetical commentary on an intricate riddle, beginning: حمد حق را كه بى همال بود – لطف او حلّ هر شكال بود It is in form of a lengthy ḳaṣîdah with the radîf بود , just as the baits of the riddle (چيستان) itself, which begins, on fol. 13a (distinguished by red ink): چيست آن جانور كه هيأت او گاه بدر و گهى هلال بود The riddle is in form of a ḳiṭ’ah; the metre is the same in both, viz.خفيف. A Persian prose-commentary on the margin and interlinear paraphrases as in the first part. 3.نظم و نثر غير منقوط كه براى شاه جمجاه شجاع الملك شاه مرحوم ساخته شده بود, on fol. 17b, most artificial Persian pieces in prose and poetry, in two distinct sections, the first of which (on ff. 17b-25a) is headed in the index (on the fly-leaves) thus: عبارات منثور و منظوم در صنعت تجريد يعنى بى نقطه بزبان عربى و فارسى معه دو بيت در صنعت منقوط التّمام يعنى تمام نقطه دار, i.e. all letters employed are مجرّد (stripped), that is to say, have no diacritical points whatever, except the last two baits (on fol. 25a), in which only letters with diacritical points are used; the second section (ff. 25a-29b) is headed in the index : قصيدة مشتمل بر صنائع نادره يعنى تجريد و توصيل يعنى اوّلا جملۀ حروف متفرّقه بعد از آن دو دو بهم پيوسته , پس سه سه تا ده ده تا موصّل التّمام يعنى بيت متّصل , i.e. the whole section consists of one lengthy ḳaṣîdah with numerous subdivisions, each of which exhibits a special kind of تجريد and توصيل, that is to say, some of the first contain only words with unconnected letters (حروف متفرّقه), partly with, partly without diacritical points ; the two divisions give then gradually words with two, three, and more connected letters up to ten, and the last piece (on fol. 29b) contains exclusively connected letters, so that each hemistich appears as one unseparated word, having a strong resemblance to long Sanskirt composita. The whole part was composed for Shujâ’-almulk, king of Afghânistân, who died A.H. 1258 (A.D. 1842), see Rieu iii. p. 905b. Beginning of the first prose-piece, on fol. 17b:الحمد لله الواحد الاحد الملك الودود الصّمد لا ملك الاّ له و لا اله الاّ هو الخ. Commentary on the margin and interlinear paraphrases. 4.قصائد و غزلها, ḳaṣîdas and ghazals of the most subtle description, in Persian, on fol. 30b. The first is addressed to the same Shujâ’-almulk, and begins: حمد خداست مطلع ديوان اختراع نعت نبيست مقصد انشا و ابتداع Commentary and paraphrases as before. 5.ابياتيكه بطريق رقعات و تهنيت نامجات بزرگان و عزيزان نوشته, on fol. 46a, poetical epistles, congratulations, etc., composed for certain festive occasions in the form of ḳiṭ’as; the first is headed در تهنيت عيد براى بزرگى, and begins: اين عيد سعيد سعيد خوش مواعيد بر بخت مبارك مبارك Occasional explanation and glosses. 6.قصّۀ وامق و عذرا بزبان كشميرى كه با فارسى مختلط است, on fol. 55b, a mathnawî, ‘Wâmiḳ and ‘Adhrâ,’ in the modern Kashmîrian dialect, which is considerably mixed with Persian. Saif-aldîn composed it, according to the colophon (on fol. 78a), in his youth, when still living in Kashmîr, and completed this transcript in Lûdiyâna the 11th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1270 (A.D. 1854, Sept. 4). He says, with the common conceit of all Eastern poets, that this mathnawî is the finest poem ever written in the idiom of Kashmîr. Beginning: خداوندا بكن شيداى عشقم بگردان وامق عذراى عشقم 7.قواعد زبان كشميرى, on fol. 79b, grammatical tablets, paradigms, glossary of the modern Kashmîrian dialect, beginning: حمد بيحدّ مر خداى سخن بر زبان آفرين را كه السنۀ مختلفه و لغات گوناگون آدميان را دليلى الخ. An index of the whole collection on the fly-leaves. The copy was received from Dr. Royle, July, 1856. Saif-aldîn states himself at the end of the work in Kashmîrian, that he wrote it at the request of the Deputy Commissioner. No. 3226, ff. 93, ll. 12-13, the first ten leaves in diagonal lines; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 107/8 in. by 6 in.

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[IO Islamic 3232] ديوان شوق

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Shauḳ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1732 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 3232 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1732 Dîwân-i-Shauḳ (ديوان شوق ). The lyrical poems of Allâhjûyâ (الله جويا), with the takhalluṣ of Shauḳ, who died, according to the prose-preface (fol. 2b, ll. 1-3), A.H. 1263, 13th of Dhû-alḥijjah (A.D. 1847, Nov. 22), near Gujarât. Contents: Prose-preface, on fol. 1b, a eulogium of the poet by his son, beginning: طرفه نبود گر فدا آيد پسند اهل ذوق زانكه طبعش ساخت با ديباچۀ ديوان شوق (or according to a various reading on the margin in the second hemistich: كز دلش زد سر برون الخ). Ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, rubâ’îs mixed, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 5b: الا يا ايّها الطّالب اقم فى العشق و اكملها كه گر همّت بود آسان نمايد جمله مشكلها Short mathnawîs at the end (ff. 65b, last line-79b, last line). Copied by Ghulâm Muḥammad, A.H. 1270, (A.D. 1854). The copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry, by the Punjab Committee at Lahore. It was received into the library from Dr. Royle, July, 1856. The dîwân of an elder poet, with the takhalluṣ Shauḳ, is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1183. No. 3232, ff. 80, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¼ in. by 5¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 3518] غم و عشرت

<ul> <li>Gham-u-‘Ishrat</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1731 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 3518 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1731 Gham u ‘Ishrat ( غم و عشرت). A mathnawî by Amîr Ćand of Amritsur (the author’s name is given in an English note by Mr. Ch. Raikes attached to the fly-leaf, see below), lamenting the death of Mahârâjah Ranjît Singh, the Sikh ruler of the Panjâb, the 27th of June, 1839, and rejoicing in the accession of his son, Kharaj Singh, together with a eulogium on prince Nûnihâl Singh, Kharaj Singh’s son, see ff. 5a, 7a, and 8b. The title of the poem appears on fol. 9a, l. 3: مسمّى باسم غم و عشرتست . It must have been composed soon after Ranjît Singh’s death, in 1839 or 1840 (A.H. 1255, 1256), as both Kharaj Singh and Nûnihâl Singh died in November of that year. Beginning: بنالم ز گردون ضحّاك كار – كه جم عشرتانرا بر آرد دمار According to the note, mentioned above, by Mr.Ch. Raikes, Commissioner and Superintendent of Lâhûr, this MS. was sent ‘to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry, by the Punjab Committee at Lahore.’ The MS. was received from Dr. Royle, July, 1856. No. 3518, ff. 10, 2 coll., each ll. 13; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¾ in. by 6½ in.

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Biography and History [IO Islamic 2799] تحفة المجاهدين

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2799 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 714 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 714. 2799. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in. Thirteen lines in a page. Foll. 1-36. An Account of the Muḥammadans of Malabar, entitled تحفة المجاهدين , by Shaikh <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-13756269/">ZAIN AL-DÎN</a> [<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85230477/">al-Malībārī</a>], who dedicated it to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Adil_Shah_I">‘Alî ‘Âdil Shâh</a> of Bijâpûr. It has been translated by Lieut. [Michael John] <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-7769282/">Rowlandson</a> (<a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.35854/mode/2up">Oriental Translation Fund, 1833</a>) . Cf. [William Hook] <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86831113/">Morley</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381519">Catal. of hist. MSS. </a>13 [ed note: this MS dated 1830], and Cat. Mus. Brit. 434 [ed. note = <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2845405">Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur : partem secundam codices Arabicos amplectentem</a>, p. 434, no. D CCCCXLV, Add. 22,375, the MS dated 1833]. The preface and the introductory chapter are omitted. The MS. begins: فصل فى بدأ ظهور الاسلام فى مليبار  It is also imperfect at the end. Well written in Nasta’liḳ. Of the twelfth century [i.e. probably 18th century CE in the time of John Leyden] Inscribed: احوال ملك مليبار  [Bibl. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a>.] <ul> <li>[ed note: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_9608">link </a>to other copies of this work].</li> <li>[ed note: Quick link to <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6229571">IO Islamic 2807</a>, a complete copy of this work]. </li> </ul>

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