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Biography and History [IO Islamic 572] مرآة الجنان وعبرة اليقظان فى معرفة حوادث الزمان

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 572 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. 706 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 706. 572. Size 113/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 558. Twenty four lines in a page. Annals of Islam, as far as A.H. 750, by (Abu’l-sa’âdât ‘Afîf al-dîn) <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85155742/">Abu Muḥammad ‘Abdallah b. As’ad b. ‘Alî YÂFI’Î </a>(a native of al-Yaman, of the Ḥimyaritie tribe of Yâfi’, who resided, from A.H. 718, alternately at Makkah and Madînah, and died at the former place, on Sunday, 20th Jum. II., 768).1 He entitled his work: <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/mirat-al-janan-wa-ibrat-al-yaqzan-fi-marifat-hawadith-al-zaman/oclc/21116673">مرآة الجنان و عبرة اليقظان فى معرفة حوادث الزمان</a> و تقلّب احوال الانسان و تاريخ موت بعض المشهورين الاعيان  See regarding this work H. Kh. v. 481, and <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr88004247/">Flügel</a>, <a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10800314">Hdss. Wien, ii</a>. 43. Cf. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86026042/">[Charles] Stewart</a>’s <a href="https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/details:bsb10218720">Catal</a>. 32. The valuable part of it are the biographies, especially those of learned men and Ṣûfîs. Besides <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87898981/">Ibn Khallikân</a>, the author used, for matters relating to his native country, the <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/tabaqat-fuqaha-al-yaman/oclc/427919237">طبقات فقهاء اليمن</a> of Ibn Samurah (<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr92044737/">‘Omar b. ‘Alî Ja’dî Yamanî</a>, d. A.H. 586).2 A supplement to the latter work is given in an appendix ( تنبيه , fol. 555 sqq.). Plainly written by two hands. A few leaves are missing at the end. The original foll. 248-255 have been misplaced, and stand now as foll. 49-56. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan">Tippu</a>.] 1 The statements in parentheses are taken from Jamâl al-dîn’s طبقات الشافعية ( see no. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601759">709</a>, fol. 154), and from Jâmî’s نفحات الانس , as quoted on the first page of no. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5594626">707</a>. 2 See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 150. <ul> <li>[ed note: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_973">link</a> to other copies of the same work].</li> </ul>

Biography and History [IO Islamic 2151]

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2151 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. 705 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 705. 2151. Size 10 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 333. Twenty-one lines in a page. المختار من وفيات الاعيان الخ An Abridgment of Ibn Khallikân’s Biographical Dictionary, made by his son MÛSA , for his private use, during the years 701 and 702 A.H. This is the author’s rough copy, consisting originally of two volumes. The earlier portion of the first volume, however, is lost. It begins now with the eighteenth quire (كراسة) , which has been inscribed الجزء الثانى . The first article is ‘Alî b. Aflaḥ (no.487, ed Wüstenfeld). It ends with the thirty-second quire, in the notice of Zamakhsharî (ed; Wüstenfeld, no. 721), the last portion being also lost. The second volume (fol. 151), المجلد الثانى , has a particular title, written by the author himself. It begins with the fourth fascicle of the original work (al-Mu’izz = no. 737, ed. Wüstenf.), and contains the rest of the book. It consists of twenty-three quires, but it has now several defects, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth quires; some leaves of the latter are also misplaced in binding. The author states at the beginning of the second volume, that he began it on Sunday, 2nd Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 701, at Balbee, and he adds in the postscript (fol. 331v. قلت اعنى كاتبها موسى بن احمد لطف الله به الخ ) , that he continued his work at Damascus, where he arrived from Balbee on Sunday , 20th Rabî’ I., 702, and completed it on Sunday, 3rd Rabî’ II. of the same year. At the end is written the epilogue of Ibn Khallikân, to which the author added, in a second postscript, a short memoir of his father and an account of his own work. This rough copy is written in a hurried hand, without diacritical points, and is often difficult to read. On the title-page are the signatures of several recent owners and readers. One of these, ‘Abd al-raḥmân Ḥalabî, whose seal is also added, wrote the title to the first volume. [College of Fort William, 1825.]

Biography and History [IO Islamic 629] with supplement روض الرياحين فى حكايات الصالحين

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 629 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. 708 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 708. 629. Size 91/2 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 455. Nineteen lines in a page. Two works of ‘<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85155742/">Afîf al-dîn ‘Abdallah b. As’ad YÂFI’Î Yamanî</a> (d. A.H. 768), viz.— I. Foll. 1-328. روض الرياحين فى حكايات الصالحين , also called by the author نزهة العيون النواظر و تحفة القلوب الحواضر فى حكايات الصالحين و الاولياء الاكابر  It contains notices of five hundred saints. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 488, and v. 329;1 Cat Lugd. ii. 299; Stewart’s Catal. 31. Begins: الحمدلله المعروف بالمعروف الموصوف بالكمال فى الآزال و الآباد  The ten authors from whom this work is chiefly compiled, are: Ghazzâlî, Ḳushairî, Suhrawardî, Abu ‘Abdallah Muḥammad b. Ibrâhîm الخبرى , Ibn ‘Aṭâ Allah , Ḳastalânî, Ibn al-Jauzî, Ibn Ḳudâmah Muḳaddasî, Abu’l-Laith Samarḳandî, and Abu’l-‘Abbâs Aḥmad b. ‘Alî, commonly called . ابن الاطربابى (?) . The appendix (خاتمة) consists of two sections: 1. (fol. 292) فى الجواب عن انكار وقع من بعض الفقهاء المصنفين الخ ;2. (fol.303) فى بيان عقيدة المشايخ العارفين الخ ; and it concludes with the ختام (fol. 316) , فى توحيد الرحمن . Plainly written by Ḥasan b. ‘Abd al-laṭîf. Dated Monday, 20th Muḥarram, 1155. Red lines round the pages. II. Foll. 329-455. A supplement to the preceding work, containing two hundred stories, which mostly refer to ‘Abd al-ḳâdir Jîlânî. The author terms it: خلاصة المفاخر فی اختصار مناقب الشيخ عبدالقادر و جماعة ممن عظّمه من الشيوخ الاكابر  It is mentioned, under a similar title, in Ḥ. Kh. iii. 166 sq.; and it seems to be also contained in Bible. Sprenger. 357. Begins:  قال الشيخ الامام القدوة العالم العلامة العارف بالله عفيف الدين عبدالله بن اسعد اليافعى اليمنى الشافعى نزيل الحرمين الشريفين غفرالله له .... اما بعد حمد الله الذى خضع لسلطان عظمته كل شئ الخ The author dwells subsequently on the approbation with which his earlier work had met from several Shaikhs, and speaks as follows of the present one (fol.330v.): (r. ثم انى رايت ان اردف الكتاب المذكور بمائتين من الحكايات عربيات ( الغريبات  المشتملات على الايات العجيبات ... فانتقيت ذلك من نفيس الجواهر المودعة فى مناقب تاج المفاخر ... محيى الدين عبدالقادر الخ Each story is preceded by the name of the Shaikh on whose authority it is related (عن الشيخ .. ) . The work concludes with a succession of sayings and traits of ‘Abd al-ḳâdir (from fol. 438v. to end). Plainly written by a different hand from no. I, and at a later date. Red lines round the pages. Seal of ‘Abd al-wahhâb Khân Nuṣrat Jang, dated A.H. 1174. [Tippu.]   1 In the latter place the second title is erroneously given to an abstract of the present work. <ul> <li>[ed note: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_102404336">link</a> to works by the author.]</li> </ul>

Biography and History [IO Islamic 1056]

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1056 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. 704 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 704. 1056. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 161. Twenty-three lines in a page. The first part of the same work. Plainly written. Imperfect at the end. It extends to the beginning of the article of Abu’l-yumn (no. 248, ed. Wüstenfeld). The last leaf is fol. 152, which has been misplaced, as has already been remarked by a reader. Fol. 161, which contains a list of names beginning with عبد , does not belong to this volume. Worm-eaten. [Gaikwar.]

Biography and History [IO Islamic 3066]

<ul> <li>Biography and History. </li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3066 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. 701 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 701. 3066. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; foll. 210. Nineteen lines in a page. تاريخ يمينى The History of the first two Ghaznavides, Subuktigîn and Maḥmûd, by Abu Naṣr Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-jabbâr ‘UTBÎ (d. about A.H. 427). This work was published by Maulawî Mamlûk al-‘Alî and Dr. Sprenger, At Dehli, 1847. Cf. Sir Ḥ. Elliot, Hist. of India, ed. Dowson, ii. 14 sqq. ; Cat. Mus. Brit 152, 551, etc. A valuable copy, beautifully written, with vowel-points. Both the beginning and end have been supplied by a more modern hand. Injured by insects. Fol. 23 should be placed after 18, fol. 134 after 138, and fol. 204 after 198. Seals of H. Vansittart and C. Boddam ; signature of the latter, Calcutta, 1787.

[IO Islamic 606] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 783 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 606 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 783 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î. A much fuller and greatly enlarged redaction of the romance of Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î, more than twice as large as the preceding copies and as all the other editions of this work, hitherto known. It consists of two different portions, the first of which is styled هفت سَيْر حاتم طى (see the same additional title in Rieu, loc. cit.), and begins exactly in the same manner as the preceding copies, besides being nearly the same length as that, viz.: سپاس بيقياس مر پروردگاری را جلّ شانه و هزاران نعت بر آن محمّد مصطفى الخ. The second part is styled هفت انصاف حاتم طى , and begins on fol. 170a: راوئ ذو فنون بمضمون موزون معروف بمنى بعبارت صاف هفت انصاف حاتم طى را بيان ميكند كه چون حاتم از آن سفرها كه بسبب حسن بانو الخ. No date. No. 606, ff. 416, ll. 17; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size 105/8 in. by 65/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2383] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 782 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2383 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 782 A short fragment of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copies. On fol. 380a, the first faṣl begins (فصل اوّل در بيان سرگذشت حسن بانو دختر برنغ بازرگان و اخراج كردن از شهر پادشاه خراسان الخ). The last words on fol. 413b agree practically (of course the exact wording differs, as in all popular romances, considerably in the various copies) with the beginning of fol. 12a, in the preceding copy. Copied in the beginning of the present century. No. 2383, ff. 371-413, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ: size, 81/8 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1550] عيار دانش

<ul> <li>‘Iyâr-i-dânish.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 777 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1550 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 777 Another disorderly copy of the same. This most peculiar copy agrees in the preface and the first bâbs, although they are without headings, entirely with the preceding ones (index on fol. 9a, first bâb on fol. 10a), but further on a great disorder begins, and the copy differs altogether from the usual ones; for instance, there suddenly occurs, on fol. 52b, another first bâb:باب اوّل در اجتناب نمودن از قول ساعى و نمّام ; on fol. 102b, a third bâb (comp. bâb V in the usual copies): باب سيم در موافقت دوستان و فوائد معاضدت ايشان ; on fol. 220b, a fourth bâb: باب چهارم در ملاحظه كردن احوال دشمنان و ايمن نا بودن از مكر و حيلۀ ایشان (comp. bâb VI in the usual copies). Then follows, on fol. 280b, a tenth bâb: باب دهم در بيان خرابئ اعمال بطريق مكافات ; an eleventh bâb, on fol. 290a: باب يازدهم در مضرّت افزون طلبيدن و از كار خود باز ماندن (comp. bâb XIII in the usual copies); a twelfth bâb, on fol. 303a: باب دوازدهم درفضيلت حلم الخ ; a thirteenth bâb, on fol. 340b: باب سيزدهم اجتناب كردن ملوك از قول غدر و خيانت (comp. bâb XV in the usual copies); a fourteenth bâb, on fol. 362b: باب چهاردهم در عدم انقلاب زمان. This chapter is the last in the copy, which was presented by J. Wombwell, Esq., the 10th of April, 1804. No. 1550, ff. 381, ll. 15; written by different hands very unequally and incorrectly in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 93/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 2472] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 780 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2472 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 780 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î (قصّۀ حاتم طائى). The Persian romance of Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î, the model of liberality and generosity in the East, beginning, exactly as No. 451 in the Bodleian Cat.: سپاس بي قياس مر پروردگاریرا جلّ شانه و هزاران نعت بر آن سرور كائنات حضرت ...... راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار چنين روایت میکنند در بيان تولّد حاتم بن طى بن كهلان الخ. Comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 449, 2-451; Rieu ii. p. 764; J. Aumer, p. 55; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 991; A. F. Mehren, p. 33. This romance has been translated into English by Duncan Forbes, London, 1830; the Calcutta edition by J. Atkinson, 1818, contains only an abridgment of it. Other editions, Constantinople, 1840, and Bombay. A different version of the same story, made by Ḥusain al-Wâ’iż alkâshifî, A.H. 891 (A.D. 1486), is described in Bodleian Cat., No. 452, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 992. This copy is severely damaged by worms in many places, and not dated. No. 2472, ff. 160, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 750] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 781 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 750 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 781 Another copy of the same. The same story of Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î, styled here قصّۀ حاتم طائى و حسن بانو. No date. Beginning as in the preceding copy. No. 750, ff. 119, ll. 17; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 111/8 in. by 75/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1359] لطائف الطوائف

<ul> <li>Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 778 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1359 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 778 Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if ( لطائف الطوائف). Jests and witty stories about the different classes of mankind, compiled by ‘Alî bin Ḥusain alwâ’iż alkâshifî (the son of the author of the Anwâr-i-Suhailî), better known as Ṣafî (not Nasafî, as is wrongly written here), and completed shortly after A.H. 939 (A.D. 1532 , 1533), In Gharjistân, where he had betaken himself after many hardships and a year’s captivity in Harât, at the court of Naṣîr-aldaulah wa Żahîr-almillah Shâh Muḥammad, the Sulṭân of Gharjistân; comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 454-457; Rieu ii. p. 757 sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 975 sq. Another title, sometimes given to this work, is لطائف الظرائف. It is divided into fourteen bâbs, viz.: I.در بيان استحباب مزاج و ذكر بعضى از مطائبات پيغمبر باصحابه الخ (about Muḥammad), in eight faṣls, on fol. 3b. II.در ذكر بعضى از نكات شريفه و حكايات لطيفۀ ائمّۀ معصومين (about the Imâms), in twelve faṣls, on fol. 15b. III. در ذكر حكايات لطيفۀ ملوک و نکات ظريفۀ سلاطين (about kings), in ten faṣls, on fol. 33a. IV. در لطائف امرا و مقرّبان و ظرائف وزرا و ارباب ديوان (about Amîrs, favourites, wazîrs, and other high state dignitaries), in six faṣls, on fol. 43b. V.در لطائف اديبان و منشيان و نديمان و سپاهان و دليران در مناظرۀ پادشاهان (about men of letters, Munshîs, courtiers, officers, etc.), in six faṣls, on fol. 52b. VI. در لطائف اعراب و نكات فصحا و بلغا و ذكر بعضى از حكم و امثال ايشان (about Bedouins, grammarians, orators, etc.) in five faṣls, on fol. 61a. VII.در لطائف مشايخ و علما و فضلا و فقها و اصحاب تذكير (about Shaikhs, ‘Ulamâs, legal men, etc.), in eight faṣls, on fol. 74b. VIII.در لطائف حكماء متقدّمين و متأخّرين و حكايات عجيبۀ اطبّا و معبّرين و منجّمين (about philosophers, old and new, physicians, interpreters of dreams, and astrologers), in eight faṣls, on fol. 85b. IX.در لطائف شعرا و بديهه گفتن ايشان در محلّها و ذكر بعضى از عجائب صنائع شعرى و غرائب بدائع فكرئ ايشان (about poets, etc.), in nine faṣls, on fol. 97b. X. در لطائف ظريفان از مردان و زنان (about male and female wags), in eleven faṣls, on fol. 127b. XI.در حكايات و لطائف بخيلان و پرخواران و طفيليان (about misers, gluttons, and parasites), in five faṣls, on fol. 149b. XII.در لطائف طامعان و دزدان و گدايان و كوران و كران (about greedy men, thieves, beggars, blind and deaf men), in eight faṣls, on fol. 156b. XIII. در لطائف كودكان و غلامان و كنيزكان زيرك و تيز فهم (about clever children slaves), in seven faṣls, on fol. 160b. XIV.در لطائف و حكايات ابلهان و كذّابان و مدّعيان نبّوت و ديوانگان (about silly people, liars, and impostors), in seven faṣls, on fol. 174b. Beginning: بعد از اداى لطائف تحميدات الهى و وظائف صلوات حضرت رسالت پناهى عليه و آله صلوات الخ. Dated the 11th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777, September 14). No. 1359, ff. 1-185, 11. 17; clear Nasta’lîḳ , on fol. 78a a second hand seems to commence; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1804] لطائف الطوائف

<ul> <li>Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 779 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1804 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 779 Another copy of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copy. Bâb I, on fol. 3a; II, on fol. 12b; III, on fol. 27a; IV, on fol. 35b; V, on fol. 43a; VI, on fol. 50a; VII, on fol. 61a (here wrongly styled فصل instead of باب); VIII, on fol. 71b; IX, on fol. 83b; X, on fol. 111a; XI, on fol. 131b; XII, on fol. 137b; XIII, on fol. 146b; XIV, on fol. 154b. The title given to it in the colophon is لطائف الظرائف (see the remark in the preceding copy); the proper title لطائف الطوائف appears on fol.2b, last line, and fol. 3a, first line. The first owner of this copy, which is not dated, was Mirzâ Muḥammad Ḥasan bin Ghaḍandarkhân ‘Âlamgîr-shâhî. No. 1804, ff. 164, ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 101/2 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 942] قصّۀ امير حمزه

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 785 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 942 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 785 Portion of an enlarged version of the same. The incomplete romance, contained in this most incorrect copy, and styled on fol. 1a, both (!) قصَۀ امير همزه and قصّۀ امير عرب , seems to be an enlarged and greatly modified redaction of the original Ḥamzanâma, resembling that defective copy of the رموز حمزه (or as it is styled with the same mistake in spelling as here: رموز همزه), which is described in Rieu ii. p. 761 (Add. 24, 418). A great number of the first chapters are apparently missing here; the portion preserved in our copy contains thirty short داستان (on ff. 1b, 8b, 12b, 16a, 19b, 29b, 33a, 39b, 42b, 47a, 59b, 62b, 65a, 68a, 69b, 77b, 82b, 91a, 99b, 104a, 108a, 113a, 119a, 130a, 136b, 143a, 145b, 163a, 173a, and 184b), every one of which begins with the phrase (read سر) آمدم بر سرى داستان. Among the prominent characters that appear here are, besides Ḥamzah himself (called امير عرب or عرب (!) همزۀ) and the prophet Muḥammad, شاهزادۀ ایرج, بابا عمر عيار, عاص بن انوس, زمرّدشاه, بديع الزمان , etc. Beginning of this copy, after the standard phrase which introduces every chapter: امّا للبن آرايان بساطين ( بساتين read) اخبار و نخل پيرايان فرداس ( فردوس read) اشمار گلدستۀ سخن تازه تر ازو نسترين ( از نسرين or از نسترين read) ازين باغ كهن چنين به بزم بيان آورده اند كه بابا عمر عيار بر درى ( در read ) بارگاه زمرّدشاه رسيد الخ. No date. The رموز حمزه have been printed in seven vols., Ṭahrân, A.H. 1274. No. 942, ff. 186, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 2567] قصّۀ امير حمزه

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 784 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2567 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 784 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah (قصّۀ امير حمزه). An incomplete copy of the romance of Amîr Ḥamzah, the son of ‘Abd-almuṭṭalib and uncle of the prophet, in a version similar, as it seems, to that in the copy of the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., No. 473), and the second and third copy of the British Museum (Rieu ii. p. 761). It begins thus:الحمد لله ..... امّا بعد قصّۀ داستان مرد ميدان پهلوان روى زمين عمّ رسول آخر الزمان امير حمزه بن عبدالمطّلب بن هاشم بن مناف قريشى كه مبارزان عالم را حلقۀ بندگی بگوش انداخته چنین آورده اند كه در قرن ماضيه كه در ايران زمين پادشاهى بود در شهر مدائن الخ. This copy breaks off at the end of the fifty-eighth dâstân, which deals with the battle of Uḥad, and begins on fol. 159a. The whole work contains, according to the various copies, from seventy to eighty dâstân. On the possible authorship of Mullâ Jalâl Balkhî, comp. Rieu, loc. cit., and Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la litter. Hind., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 236; on Turkish versions of the Ḥamzanâma, Fleischer, Kleiner Schriften, iii. p. 228; Bodleian Cat., No. 2108; and G. Flügel ii. p. 29. Another copy of this romance is noticed in J. Aumer, p.55. Lithographed in Lucknow. No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2567, ff. 165, ll. 21; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 83/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 2383] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 790 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2383 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 790 The same. The same redaction again, beginning: سپاس و ستايش الخ ; this modern copy was finished the 8th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1217 (A.D. 1802, September 6), at Patna. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2383, ff. 1-126, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 897] قصّۀ شاه مردان على

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Shâh-i-mardân ‘Alî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 786 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 897 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 786 Ḳiṣṣ-i-Shâh-i-mardân ‘Alî (قصّۀ شاه مردان على). Another very large, but likewise incomplete, Persian romance of similar character and similar contents as the preceding one, and therefore styled, in a note, on fol. 1a, قصّۀ حمزه ; but whether it is merely another enlarged version of the Ḥamzanâma or rather an independent romance, dealing with heroic deeds of the same period, is difficult to say; at any rate, the chief hero here is ‘Alî bin Abî Ṭâlib, Muḥammad’s son-in-law and fourth Khalîf, not Ḥamzah, the prophet’s uncle; every paragraph begins with the words امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه , and closes with the phrase يا على مدد. On the other hand, several characters appearing in the preceding copy of the Ḥamzanâma, are found here too, for instance, زمرّدشاه. In spite of its excessive length, this copy is by no means complete; it begins abruptly thus: امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه نقاب وار گوهرپوش طهماسپ را گرفت زمرّدشارا گرفت نقاب وار از عقب عمر الخ, and a great number of leaves are missing at the end; there is also a blank between the middle of fol. 6a and that of fol. 7a, and portions of ff. 8, 650, and 651 are torn away. Neither date nor author’s name appears anywhere. The same note on fol. 1a which gives to this romance the title of قصّۀ حمزه also states that it was copied A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673). No. 897, ff. 664, ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 51/4 in.

[IO Islamic 980] دارابنامه

<ul> <li>Dârâbnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 787 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 980 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 787 Dârâbnâma (دارابنامه). A slightly incomplete copy of one of the numerous historical romances or collections of romantic stories, founded on Persian legends, by Abû Ṭâhir of Ṭarsus (or with his full name, Abû Ṭâhir Muḥammad bin Ḥasan bin ‘Alî bin Mûsâ Ṭarṭûsî or Ṭarsûsî), the fruitful author of prose-epopees in imitation of Firdausî’s Shâhnâma, comp. Mohl, Livre des Rois, i. préface, pp. 74 and 75. Other works of Abû Ṭâhir are the Ḳahramânnâma (also called Dâstân-i-Ḳahramân or Ḥikâyat-i-Ḳahramân-i-Ḳâtil, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 993; and on the Turkish translation of the same, W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 460 sq., and Fleischer, Cat. Lips., p. 522) and the Ḳirân-i-Ḥabashî (in Turkish translation in Bodleian Cat., No. 2101; Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 219 sq., etc.). Abû Ṭâhir’s original version of the present romance on Darius and Alexander had, according to the conclusion, on fol. 444a, been preserved in the library of the emperor Akbar and put into its present form by Kaiḳubâd bin Mihyâr, at the request of another eminent Persian, Nûshirwân bin Bahmânshâh. From the brouillon of that compiler, the present copy was made by ‘Abd-alraḥmân, and finished the 8th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617, May 14). The beginning is missing; it opens in the middle of the mythical account of Dârâb’s youth, in the usual manner of all Oriental fairy tales. The first and several other leaves are greatly injured. No. 980, ff. 444, ll. 25 on ff. 1-94 with many blanks, ll. 21 on ff. 95-443; written by two different hands in Naskhî; size, 111/4 in. by 71/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2497] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 789 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2497 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 789 Another copy of the same. The same redaction of the story, as in the preceding copy. Beginning: آغاز داستان قصّۀ سيف الملك (! sic) و بديع الجمال ، سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را الخ. No date; the original part of the MS., in bold Naskhî, is considerably old and much damaged. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2497, ff. 1-67, ll. 14-15; Naskhî, except ff. 1-5, 11, and 51-67, which have been added by a much more modern hand, on white paper in Nasta’lîḳ, ll. 10-11; size, 81/4 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 536] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 788 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 536 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 788 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl (قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال). The love-story of prince Saif-almulûk and princess Badî’-aljamâl, a tale from the Arabian nights in Persian translation or adaptation; the redaction of the story in the present copy is the common or second one, agreeing with No. 461 in the Bodleian Cat., Rieu ii. p. 764 (Egerton 1018), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 996 (No. 1044), and beginning: سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را كه بقلم صنع خود اين همه صورتهاى عجب ..... امّا بعد چنين گويد ( گويندBodl.copy) راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و حكيمان و بزرگان روزگار كه در ايّام محمود غازى الخ. Comp. also G. Flügel ii. p. 27. An Eastern Turkish version in mathnawî-baits, composed A.H. 960 in Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1553, Febr.-March) is preserved in No. 2824, ff. 1-85, of this collection. Dated the 19th of Ramaḍân in the seventeenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (A.H. 1148=A.D. 1736, Febr.2). No. 536, ff. 67, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; very curious and comical illustrations on ff. 4a, 5a, 14a, 14b, 17a, 17b,21a, 23b, 25b, 26a, 31b, 34a, 34b, 36b, 38a, 39b, 41b, 51a, 52a, 54b, 55a (the full page), 59b, 60a (again the full page), 63b, 64a (the full page), 66b and 67a (one picture, filling the two pages); size, 8 in. by 41/8 in.

[IO Islamic 810] افسانت الغرائب

<ul> <li>Afsânat-algharâ’ib.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 799 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 810 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 799 Afsânat-algharâ’ib (افسانت الغرائب). Another collection of Persian stories, without preface or conclusion, similar in character and sometimes in contents also to those in the جامع الحكايات in No. 797 (comp., for instance, Nos. 21 and 22 of this compilation with Nos. 15 and 4 in the preceding one). The above title is found on the fly-leaf, and there is also the name of the author quoted, viz. Mullâ Tayammunî Rûmî (ملّا تيمّنى رومى). It contains the following tales: 1.قصّۀ اسكندر ذو القرنين, on fol. 1b. 2.قصّۀ منظر شاه, on fol. 38a. 3.حكايت برهمن , on fol. 55a. 4.حكايت پادشاه كشمير, on fol. 78b. 5.حكايت دهقان فارس, on fol. 81a. 6.حكايت روباهى گرسنه, on fol. 85a. 7.حكايت مرد مسافر, on fol. 88b. 8.حكايت دمنه, on fol. 93a. 9. قصّۀ بوزينه, on fol. 95a. 10.حكايت سه جوان, on fol. 97a (see a similar story in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 988, No. 2). 11.حكايت موش و گربه (W. Pertsch, loc. cit., No. 8), on fol. 105b. 12.حكايت عادلخان, on fol. 112a. 13.حكايت پادشاه سمرقند, on fol. 132a. 14.حكايت قاسم ديوانه, on fol. 137b. 15. حكايت گل ترک, on fol. 151b. 16.حكايت عبدالله, on fol. 152a. 17. حكايت مرد پيرى هيمه كش, on fol. 156a. 18. حكايت عظيم الملك, on fol. 165b. 19.حكايت پادشاه بصره, on fol. 178a. 20.حكايت رئيس موصل, on fol. 193b. 21.قصّۀ حجّاج, on fol. 204a. 22.حكايت شهزاده بهرام و گل اندام, on fol. 216b. 23.حكايت مرد نيشاپور در بلاد عراق, on fol. 239b. 24. حكايت خاورشاه پادشاه, on fol. 247a. Beginning: واقعۀ تولّد ذوالقرنين بدانكه اسكندر اصل از مغرب است ليكن بسبب آنكه مادر او از روم است او را اسكندر رومى گويند الخ. No date. Fol. 2 a little injured. No. 810, ff. 264, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 45/8 in.