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[IO Islamic 1319] Persian Poetry

<ul> <li>Persian-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1756 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 1319 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1756 An album of Persian poetry, without any value, containing indifferent specimens of Persian ghazals and rubâ’îs, bound together without any order. Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088) is the most conspicuous among the contributors. No. 1319, ff. 121; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¾ in. by 4¾ in.

[IO Islamic 1521] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1762 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 1521 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1762 Miscellanies. This MS., written by many different hands, contains a great number of complete and incomplete treatises, detached prose-pieces and fragments of poetry, all confusedly mixed together. The principal portions of this copy are as follows: 1.Extracts from the Shâhnâma (see No. 860 sq. above), beginning: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ. 2.A ساقى نامه, by Ṣidḳî (i.e. Sulṭân Muḥammad Ṣidḳî of Astarâbâd, a panegyrist of Shâh Ṭahmâsp, died A.H. 952), on fol. 10a, beginning: خوشا حال مستى كه منصور وار ميسّر شدش مستئ پايدار 3.Ghazals, by Ṣidḳî and ‘Urfî (died A.H. 999), on fol. 13a. 4.Fragment of an Inshâ, by Ghiyâth-aldîn bin Humâm, commonly called Khwândamîr, that is the famous author of the خلاصة الاخبار, the حبيب السّير, etc. (see Nos. 76-100 above), on fol. 18a, beginning: اى حمد تو ديباچۀ منشور كمال الخ. 5.Short extracts from Niżâmî’s mathnawîs (see Nos. 972-1027 above), ghazals by Ḥâfiż (see Nos. 1246-1274 above), a letter by Naṣîrâ of Hamadân (who was met by Taḳî Auḥadî in Shîrâz, A.H. 1015=A.D. 1606, 1607, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 512, and Rieu iii. p. 1093b) to the Wazîr of Iṣfahân, and various poetical specimens, especially mukhammasât, on fol. 24b. 6.Poems by Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî (see Nos. 1060-1115 above), Maulânâ Dakhlî (came from ‘Irâḳ to India under Akbar), Ḥâfiż, Khâḳânî (see Nos. 950-970 above), etc., on fol. 41a. 7.Extracts from Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî, on fol. 50a. 8.A prose-piece, beginning: مرويست از امام جعفر صادق عليه السّلام كه هر كه سورۀ يسين را سه روز بر زعفران و گلاب نويسد الخ , and ghazals by different Persian poets, on fol. 51b. 9.A poetical description of Kashmîr, by Jân Ḳudsî (see Nos. 1552-1557 above), حاجى محمّد جان قدسى در تعريف كشمير, on fol. 62a, beginning: خوشا كشميرو خاك پاك كشمير الخ. Both from the initial bait and metre it is evident that this poem is different from the usual mathnawî in praise of Kashmîr, see No. 1552, 4. 10.Ghazals, by Maulânâ Ḥashrî, Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim, Ḥakîm Ruknâ (died A.H. 1066), Amîr Khusrau (died A.H. 725), Abû Ṭâlib Kalîm (died A.H. 1062), Maḥsharî (teacher of Mullâ Nażîrî of Nîshâpûr, who died A.H. 1021, see No. 1489 above), Shaikh Bû ‘Alî, Aḳdasî of Mashhad (died A.H. 1003), etc., a فائدۀ ده پند ديگر كه از قول بوزرجمهر حكيم , and few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs, on fol. 64a. 11.A short story (حكايت), a few verses, a prescription جهت قوّة باه, and a محلوق (مخلوق) نامۀ پيغمبر on fol. 67a. 12.Another collection of Persian, poems by Sa’dî (died A.H. 690), Shâh Ḳâsim, Ahlî (of Shirâz, died A.H. 942), Waḥshî (died A.H. 991 or 992), Amîr Khusrau, etc., on fol. 70a. 13.از منشآت ارسطاطاليس حكيم, in verse, beginning: بدان اى خردمند نيكو سير الخ ; followed by ghazals of ‘Urfî, Shâhî (died A.H. 857), etc., and a series of fards, on fol. 73a. 14.Poems by Ḳâsim (probably Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, who died A.H. 837), extracts from Jâmî’s سلسلة الذّهب (composed A.H. 890, see No. 1300, 9 above), ghazals by Kâtibi (died A.H. 838 or 839), Kamâl (Khujandî, died A.H. 803), etc., and a Turkish poem by Âyâzî (آيازى), on fol. 83a. 15.Selections from the لطائف الطّوائف, by ‘Alî bin Ḥusain alwâ’iż (see Nos. 778 and 779 above), arranged in a somewhat puzzling manner. There appears a fifth faṣl on the first page, fol. 88a, در ذكر بعضى از فوائد انفاس امام محمّد باقر ; a sixth on fol. 88b, در ذكر بعضى نكات لطيفۀ امام جعفر صادق ; a seventh on fol. 89a, در ذكر شمّۀ از انفاس متبرّكۀ امام موسى الكاظم ; then follows a second on fol. 89b, در لطائف شعرا نسبت توانگران و بخيلان ; after that a ninth on fol. 90a, در لطائف متفرّقۀ ظرفا ; and an eighth on the same page, در لطائف ظرفا باعراب ; again a seventh occurs on fol. 92b, در بديهه گفتن شعرا با يكديگر ; a third on fol. 93a, در ذكر بعضى از كلمات شريفۀ امام حسين ; again an eighth on fol. 93b, در بديهه كه عرفا و شعرا در وقت وفات گفته ; again a seventh on fol. 94a, در دين دارى و مسلمانئ پادشاهان ; and again a second on fol. 94b, در لطائف و فوائد حكماء متأخّرين. 16.The three prose-treatises by Żuhûrî (see No. 1509 sq. above). Viz. (a) Preface to the نورس , beginning: سرود سرايان الخ, on fol. 96a; (b) Preface to the گلزار ابراهيم, beginning: خرّمى چمن الخ, on fol. 98a; (c) Preface to the خوان خليل, beginning: اى از تو الخ, on fol. 101a. 17.Ghazals, by Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088), Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, etc., on fol. 104a. 18.Story of Buzurjmihr and Aristotle (!), on fol. 115b, beginning: الحمد لله .... آورده اند كه روزى نوشيروان عادل بخواجه بوزرجمهر حكيم الخ. It is a tract, similar to, if not identical with the ظفرنامۀ بزرجمهر , published by Schefer in his Chrest. Persane i. pp. ١-٦, comp. also Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 43. Dated at Daulatâbâd the 3rd of Muḥarram, A.H. 1175 (A.D. 1761, Aug. 4). 19.Poems by Shâh Ni’mat-allâh Walî (died A.H. 834), on fol. 120a. 20.اسناد فاتحۀ باژگونه , on fol. 121a, beginning: روايت ميكند از امير المؤمنين عثمان الخ. 21.Bread and sweatmeat (نان و حلوا), the well-known mathnawî by Bahâ-aldîn Muḥammad ‘Âmilî (died A.H. 1030), on fol. 122a, beginning: مرحبا اى بلبل دستان حى الخ , see Nos. 1517-1520 above. 22.A story, beginning: درويشى بدر خانۀ بازرگانى رسيد الخ, on fol. 125a. 23.An ethical treatise in forty bâbs, entitled تحفة السّلاطين, on fol. 126a, beginning: الحمد لله ..... امّا بعد بدانكه اين رسالۀ تحفة السّلاطين مبوّب بر چهل بابست و در هر بابى چهار نصيحت باب ا در آنكه چهار چيز پادشاهانرا نگاهدارد اوّل رعايت و محافظت الخ. It is identical with the رسالۀ تحفة الملوك , described in Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 45. 24.An astronomical treatise in verse by Khwâjah Naṣîr of Ṭûs (در دانستن آن كه ماه در كدام برج است), on fol. 128a; Naṣîr-aldîn of Ṭûs, the great philosopher and astronomer, died A.H. 672 (A.D. 1273, 1274). 25.A treatise on pearls, jewels, and precious stones, on fol. 129b, beginning : فهرست ابواب در معرفت جواهر و فائدۀ آن باب اوّل در معرفت مرواريد الخ. In twenty one bâbs (not twenty, as the fihrist states). 26.Another treatise, styled: كلمۀ چند در بيان حليۀ , صورت ظاهر انسان و شكل و شمائل و اعضا و جوارح ايشان, on fol. 136a. 27.Metaphysical and psychological tracts in various fuṣûl; the first faṣl is styled: در تمهيد معذرت جهت قصور ادراك و عبادت on fol. 138a. 28.A treatise on the horse, said to have been translated from Aristotle, in thirty bâbs (در معرفت انواع اسپان و هنر آن و الوان و افعال و علّت و دفع علّت ايشان الخ ), on fol. 142b followed by miscellaneous verses, a pros-fragment, and rubâ’îs. 29.Fragment of the first volume of Mirkhwând’s universal history, on fol. 150a. Title: تاريخ روضة الصّفا فى شرف الانبيا, see Nos. 24-75 in this Cat. 30.در خواصّ اسما و آيات, a large treatise on the hidden science and magic influence of special verses and phrases of the Ḳurân, translated from Arabic sources by ‘Abd-al’alî bin Ḥusain, A.H. 926 (A.D. 1520), on fol. 213b, beginning: الحمد لله الّذى انزل القرآن على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيراً الخ. 31.Durr-almajâlis (دٌرّ المجالس), a collection of legends relating to the Patriarchs, Prophets, Muḥammad, ‘Alî, and various Saints, by Saif al-Żafar Naubahârî, in thirty-three chapters, on fol. 293b, beginning : حمدى كه از عنايت الهى بر زبان الخ ; comp. Rieu i. p. 44; J. Aumer, p. 58; G. Flügel iii. p. 444; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. i. p. 359; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 980, etc. 32.A poem by Ḥaidar (i.e. Ḥaidar Kulûć or Kulîćapaz, died A.H. 959), and various prose-fragments, among which an incomplete treatise on similar topics as No. 30, styled شرح ردّ سحر صحيح و مجرّب , and beginning on fol. 357b: روايت است كه روزى شخص پيش خواجه رشيد رحمة الله عليه آمد الخ. The right order of the leaves of this treatise is: fol. 357b, 351a-355b. On the fly-leaves in the beginning of the MS. there are also some scattered prose-fragments. No. 1521, ff. 357; written in many different styles of Nasta’lîḳ; size, 123/8 in. by 71 in.

[IO Islamic 281] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1764 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 281 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1764 Poetical miscellanies and fragments. A collection of lyrical and epical poems, mostly fragmentary, bound together with a defective copy of a prose-story, for the greater part in a very precarious state. Contents: 1.Ghazals, by Shâhî (died A.H. 857), Ḥâfiż, Âṣafî (died A.H. 923), Jâmî, etc. forming a sort of anthology, on ff. 1b-50a, usually four baits in a page. 2.Fragment of the dîwân of Ṣâ’ib, containing ghazals, in alphabetical order, on ff. 51b-66b, beginning: اگر نه مدّ بسم الله الخ, and breaking off already in the first rhyme-letter ا (comp. above, No. 1606, 3 etc.); 2 columns, each ll. 15. 3.Fragment, defective both at the beginning and end, of an allegorical mathnawî, حسن و دل (beauty and heart, see, for instance, fol. 71a), by a poet with the takhalluṣ Ṣairafî (i.e. Maulânâ Ṣalâḥ-aldîn of Sâwa, who came to India Akbar and still flourished under Jahângîr, to whom this poem is dedicated, see fol. 69b), on ff. 67a-111b; 2 columns, each ll. 15. 4.A large portion of the mystical mathnawî زاد المسافرين (provision for travellers), by the great Ṣûfic poet and writer Mîr Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî (i.e. Ḥusain bin ‘Âlim bin Abî-alḥasan alḥusainî), who died after A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320), see complete copies of the same in Nos. 1832-1834 below. It begins, on fol. 112b:اى برتر از آن همه كه گفتند الخ , and breaks off on fol. 151b. 5.A fragment, defective both at beginning and end, of the كارستان (see fol. 156a) or كارنامه , an Indian story of the exploits and adventures of Wâlâ Akhtar, the prince of Hurmuz, composed A.H. 1050 (A.D. 1640, 1641) in Jaunpûr by the same Abû-albarakât Munîr of Lâhûr (who has been mentioned in No. 16 of the preceding copy), and dedicated to the emperor Shâhjahân, on ff. 152a-196b, ll. 15. No. 281, ff. 196, written by different hands in different styles of Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b; size, 7¼ in. by 4 in.

[IO Islamic 902] Persian Poetry

<ul> <li>Persian-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1755 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 902 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1755 Another rough album of Persian poetry, beginning with an incomplete copy of the famous little mathnawî سوز و گداز by Nau’î (died A.H. 1019; see above, No. 1485), the first hemistich of which runs here thus: الهى سينه ام را نالگى ده الخ. The remaining portion of this MS. contains extracts from the dîwâns of well-known lyrical poets, Âhî (died A.H. 927), Kalîm (Abû Ṭâlib, died A.H. 1062), Nâṣir ‘Alî (died A.H. 1108), Fuḍûlî (of Baghdâd, died A.H. 970), Mîr Siyâdat (Jalâl-aldîn, flourished about A.H. 1081), Jalâl Asîr (died A.H. 1049), Mullâ Munîr of Lâhûr (died A.H. 1054), etc. No. 902, ff. 64, 3 or 2 coll. in a page; written by different hands in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; many leaves left blank, others partly filled; injured and effaced in many places; illuminated frontispiece, partly damaged; size, 93/8 in. by 51/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1488] Persian and Rekhta Poetry

<ul> <li>Poetry-Album</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1758 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 1488 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Miscellaneous Poetry in Persian, Hindûstânî, Dakhnî, and Turkish, and Extracts in Verse and Prose (Nos. 1758-1772) 1758 An album of Persian and Rekhta poetry, containing different collections in alphabetical arrangement, the proper order of the leaves being this: ff. 1-31, 88-150, 32-87, 151-229. First series, on ff. 1b-31 and 88-105: Persian ghazals and mukhammasât by various poets, beginning, on fol. 1b: الحمد لذاته العلى الاعلى – النّعت لاسماء صفات الحُسْنى Second series, on ff. 106b-150b and 32a-87b: Persian rubâ’îs, arranged alphabetically, without any author’s name, beginning, on fol. 106b: ياران چو نصير نيستم هرزه درا امّا حرفى حقّى بگويم بشما Third series, on ff. 151b-194b: Rekhta ḳaṣidas, ghazals, mukhammasât, etc. Fourth series, on ff. 195a-229: Persian miscellaneous poems, rubâ’îs by Ḥishmat (Muḥammad ‘Alî, pupil of ‘Abd-alghanîbeg Ḳabûl, who died A.H. 1139 was over thirty years in A.H. 1136), Bîdil (died A.H. 1133), etc.; fards, ḳiṭ’as, ta’rîkhât, ghazals, mathnawî-baits, etc., on fol. 203b sq., by Nâṣir bin Khusrau (died A.H. 481); Ḳizilbashkhân Ummîd (died A.H. 1159), Shaikh Ḥazîn (died A.H. 1180), Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088), Ḥâfiż (died A.H. 791), Mukhliṣ Kâshî (see No. 1687 above), Fiṭrat (died A.H. 1106), Shaikh Niżâmî, Luṭf ‘Alîbeg Sâmî, and other minor poets. Many pages left blank for later insertion of poems in their proper alphabetical place. No date. No. 1488, ff. 229, ll. 9-12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 73/8 in. by 41/4 in.

[IO Islamic 900] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1766 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 900 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1766 Scattered selections from Persian works in verse and prose, put together without any order. The copy begins with extracts from the poems of Shaikh ‘Aṭṭâr (died A.H. 627, see Nos. 1031-1054 above), Mirzâ Ḳâsim, Maulânâ ‘Abdî (an ‘Abdî of Bâkû died A.H. 965; an ‘Abdî of Nîshâpûr was the uncle of Shâh Maḥmûd Zarîn-ḳalam, a third was ‘Abdî of Abarḳûh under Shâh Ṭahmâsp, a fourth ‘Abdî of Gunâbâd, a protégé of prince Ibrâhîm Mirzâ Jâhî Ṣafawî and author of a mathnawî گوهر شاهوار, a fifth lived in India under Shâhjahân, about A.H. 1051), etc.; Ḥakîm Jauharî (probably Jauharî Zargar, the contemporary of Athîr-aldîn Akhsîkatî, who died A.H. 608, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1481, col. 490 above), is found on fol. 9a; then follow again ‘Aṭṭâr, Ḥâfiż, etc.; several ḳaṣîdas and rubâ’is; extracts from Jâmî, Shaikh Rûzbahân Ṣûfî (on fol. 30a, see No. 1747, fifth Shaikh ab infra), Shâh Shujâ’, Mirzâ Raḍî Artîmânî (see No. 1522 above), Shaikh Auḥadî (died A.H. 738), Ḳulî Salîm (died A.H. 1057, see No. 1558 above), Abû Turâbbeg (under Shâh ‘Abbâs I, see No. 1528 above), Ḥijâbî, Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim (on fol. 33b), Thanâ’î (died A.H. 996), Ṣâ’ib, Khâḳânî, a مناجات by Amîr Khusran (died A.H. 725, on fol. 36b), etc.; a ساقينامه, by Aḳdasî (of Mashhad, died A.H. 1003, on fol. 41b), another by Ḥakîm Partawî (of Shîrâz, about A.H. 1000, on fol. 43a), a third by Mashrab (on fol. 48a); poems by Asadî of Ṭûs (died between A.H. 421 and 432, see No. 893 above, on fol. 54b), etc., by Niżâm of Astrâbâd (died A.H. 921, on fol. 61b), etc., by Salmân (of Sâwa, died A.H. 778 or 779, see Nos. 1237-1243 above, on fol. 64b); a mathnawî on Muḥammad’s ascension to heaven, در معراج (on fol. 76b sq.); short pieces in prose (on fol. 98b), intermixed with poetry, by Auḥadî, etc.; a fourth ساقينامه, by Ḥakîm ‘Aṭâi (on fol. 104a); prose-extracts from a book, entitled اخلاق رسول (on fol. 106a); poems by Niżâmî (on fol. 109b); prose-stories, etc. (on fol. 110a sq.); در ذكر فضيل عياض (on fol. 123b sq., see on Fuḍail bin ‘Iyâḍ the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 96, col. 284 in this Cat.); در فضيلت و آداب نماز شب (on fol. 135b sq.); extracts from a book on traditions, and other scattered prose-pieces (on fol. 139a sq.). No. 900, ff. 176; written in Nasta’lîḳ by different hands; great variety in the number of columns and lines in a page; size, 97/8 in. by 57/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2559] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1761 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 2559 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1761 Miscellaneous Persian and Turkish poetry. This MS., the leaves of which are misplaced to an almost bewildering extent, contains: 1.On ff. 1-8, 95, 9-17, 23-52, 93, 94, 96-143: A Turkish adaptation and amplification of Shabistarî’s Gulshan-i-râz, by a Turkish poet Shîrazî (كتاب گلشن راز ترجمۀ شيرازى), incomplete at the end with probable lacunas between the various fragmentary pieces, beginning: نفس اوردى نفس رحمان نسيمى معطّر اولِد جان و دل حريمى 2.On ff. 144-173 and 19-22 : the Persian original of the Gulshan-i-râz, with the omission of the first thirteen verses, beginning, on fol. 144a : جهان و خلق امر اينجا يكى شد الخ, corresponding to ver. 14 in Whinfield’s edition, London, Trübner, 1880. On the Gulshan-i-râz (composed A.H. 717=A.D. 1317), by Maḥmûd Shabistarî (died A.H. 720=A.D. 1320), see Bodleian Cat., No. 1260, and further down under ‘Ṣûfism’ in this Cat. 3.On ff. 18 and 53-86b: a large fragment (end of the second daftar) of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr Jawâhir-aldhât (جواهر الذّات), comp. fol. 86a, l. 9: كنون عطّار گفتى جوهرى ذات الخ ; see No. 1031, 17; No. 1033, 2; No. 1035, 2; and Nos. 1046 and 1047 above. 4.Ff. 86b and 87a: a few Persian ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs. 5.Ff. 87b -92b and 174a-183a: Nâṣir bin Khusrau’s Rûshanâ’înâma (روشنائى نامه), beginning: بنامى (! sic) كردگارى (!) پاك داور كه هست از فهم و فكر و عقل برتر Comp. No. 904 above. 6.Ff. 183b-184b: a Turkish tarkibband. The whole copy is written by a scribe who was apparently ignorant of Persian, as the spelling in the few lines quoted above proves. The simple Iḍâfat he expresses, for instance, almost always by a full ى . Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2559, ff. 184, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Turkish hand; size, 81/4 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 505] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1768 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 505 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   1768 Miscellanious. This MS., written like some of the preceding ones, by a very rude and inexperienced hand, contains: 1.A short collection of letters by Ni’mat-allâh, a Jew entitled انشاء نعمت , on fol. 1b, beginning : الحمد لله ..... بندۀ درگاه ..... اشتباه نعمت الله بنى اسرائيل الخ 2.Maḥmûdnâma (محمود نامه), a collection of ghazals (from five to seven baits), by an unknown author, arranged in the form of a dîwân, so that for every rhyme-letter there appears one ghazal, and forming a complete poem, treating of the well-known story of Maḥmûd and Ayâz (the best known poetical version of which is the mathnawî of the same title, by Zulâlî. See No. 1494, 2 above); in the concluding verse of each stanza ‘Maḥmûd,’ or ‘Maḥmûd u Ayâz’ appears as a kind of takhalluṣ. Beginning, on fol. 12a: اى داغ بر, دل از غم خال تو لاله را الخ. 3.Sa’dî’s alleged پندنامه (see No. 1127, 7 above), beginning, on fol. 28a: كريما ببخشاى الخ. 4.A Rekhta mathnawî, on fol. 39a, At the end of No. 2 is written: اين كتاب در سركار تپوّ سلطان است. No. 505, ff. 48. 2 coll., each ll. 9; rude Shikasta; also, 7¾ in. by 5½ in.

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PoeTree. Poetry Corpora in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish

PoeTree is a dataset comprising nearly 335,000 poems / 90,000,000 tokens in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovenian, and Russian). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure (schema available at <a href="https://versologie.cz/poetree/json-schema">https://versologie.cz/poetree/json-schema</a>). <ul> <li>cs (~80k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://github.com/versotym/corpusCzechVerse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corpus of Czech Verse</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>de (~74k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://metricalizer.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metricalizer</a> and <a href="https://github.com/tnhaider/DLK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deutsches Lyrik Korpus</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>en (~40k poems) <ul> <li>based on texts from <a href="https://gutenberg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Gutenberg</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>es (~9k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://github.com/bncolorado/CorpusSonetosSigloDeOro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corpus of Spanish Golden-Age Sonnets</a> and <a href="https://github.com/pruizf/disco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diachronic Spanish Sonnet Corpus</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>fr (~18k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://crisco4.unicaen.fr/verlaine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malherbə</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>hu (~13k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://github.com/ELTE-DH/poetry-corpus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ELTE Poetry Corpus</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>it (~40k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biblioteca Italiana</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>no (~3k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://github.com/norn-uio/norn-poems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NORN Poems</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>pt (~5k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://github.com/adiel-mittmann/poemas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poemas</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>ru (~45k poems) <ul> <li>derived from <a href="https://ruscorpora.ru/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corpus of Russian Poetry</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>sl (~5k poem) <ul> <li>based on texts from <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wikisource</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> new in v. 1.0.0: <ul> <li>PoeTree.no added</li> <li>PoeTree.(cs,de,en,fr,hu,it,ru,sl) enriched with geolocation mentions</li> <li>Updated and corrected metadata in PoeTree.(de,en,es,ru)</li> <li>Multiple text corrections in PoeTree.ru</li> </ul>

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Prosody annotated recited poetry in Finnish

This dataset contains the audio for four poems recited in Finnish in the wav folder and their corresponding transcription with prosodic annotation in the text folder. The audio files contain a single verse each and their order has been shuffled.  Please, cite the following paper, if you use the data: Hämäläinen, M., & Rueter, J. (2020). <a href="https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/159764495/runonlausunta.pdf">Runonlausunnan prosodia ja sen mallintaminen koneellisesti puhesynteesillä</a>. In Материалы Международного образовательного салона (pp. 5-17)

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Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 1151]

<ul> <li>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1151 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. 798 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> POETRY AND ELEGANT PROSE. 798. 1151. Size 10 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 75. Eight lines (hemistichs) in a page. The Seven Mu’allaḳât. Boldly written, with all the vowel-points, but very incorrect. Some of the grossest errors have been corrected on the margin. The first two pages are splendidly ornamented. Dated Sha’bân, 1196. A defect after fol. 6. [Johnson.]

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Human evaluation data for Modern French Poetry Generation with RoBERTa and GPT-2

Human evaluation results and the evaluated poems for the following paper: Hämäläinen, M., Alnajjar, K., & Poibeau, T. (2022) Modern French Poetry Generation with RoBERTa and GPT-2. In The Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity.  The Excel file contains all of the evaluation data (excluding the IP addresses of the evaluators) and the csv file contains the aggregated results.

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SYMBOL IS THE MAIN PASSION OF ABDULLA ORIPOV'S POETRY

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