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metadata [IO Islamic 259] طبقات شاهجهانى

<ul> <li>Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 705 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 259 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 705 Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî (طبقات شاهجهانى ). A large collection of succinct biographies of all the great Sayyids, Shaikhs, Saints, Ḥakîms, ‘Ulamâs, and poets, who flourished from the beginning of Tîmûr’s reign down to the reign of the emperor Shâhjahân, compiled about A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636, 1637) by Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ, and dedicated to Shâhjahân (A.H. 1037-1068=A.D. 1627-1658), comp. Rieu iii. p. 1009; Elliot, History of India, vii. p. 133. It is divided into ten ṭabaḳât (every one containing three bâbs), viz.: Ṭabaḳah I: Famous men in Tîmûr’s reign (A.H. 770-807 =A.D. 1369-1405), on fol. 6a (bâb II, on fol. 23b; bâb III, on fol. 30a). Ṭabaḳah II: Famous men, who lived under Mirzâ Mîrânshâh and died under Sulṭân Shâhrukh (A.H. 807-850=A.D. 1405-1447), on fol. 40a (bâb II, on fol. 63a; bâb III, on fol. 75b). Ṭabaḳah III: Famous men under Sulṭân Muḥammad bin Mirzâ Mîrânshâh and Mirzâ Ulughbeg bin Mirzâ Shâhrukh (A.H. 850-853 =A.D. 1447-1449), on fol.85b (bâb II, on fol. 95a; bâb III, on fol. 102b). Ṭabaḳah IV: Famous men, who lived and died under Sulṭân Abû Sa’îd Gûrgân (A.H. 854-873=A.D. 1450-1469), on fol. 109a (bâb II, on fol. 118a; bâb III, on fol. 124a). Ṭabaḳah V: Famous men, who lived and died under Mirzâ ‘Umar Shaikh Bahâdur, son of Sulṭân Abû Sa’îd Gûrgân (A.H. 873 - 899 =A.D. 1469-1494), on fol. 133b (bâb II, on fol. 147a; bâb III, on fol. 156b). Tabaḳah VI: Famous men under Sulṭân Bâbar (A.H. 900-937 = A.D. 1495-1530), on fol. 161b (bâb II, on fol. 179b; bâb III, on fol. 187a). Ṭabaḳah VII : Famous men under Sulṭân Humâyûn (A.H. 938-963 = A.D. 1531-1556), on fol. 192a (bâb II, on fol. 205b; bâb III, on fol. 215b). Ṭabaḳah VIII: Famous men under Sulṭân Akbar (A.H. 963 -1014 = A.D. 1556-1605), on fol. 223b (bâb II, on fol. 261b; bâb III, on fol. 284b). Ṭabaḳah IX: Famous men under Sulṭân Jahângîr (A.H. 1014-1037 = A.D. 1605-1627), on fol. 348a (bâb II, on fol. 369a; bâb III, on fol. 380a). Ṭabaḳah X: Famous men, contemporary with Sulṭân Shâhjahân, from A.H. 1037-1046 = A.D. 1627-1636, 1637, on fol. 395a (bâb II, on fol. 415b; III, on fol. 424a). After fol. 434 two leaves are missing. Worm-eaten and slightly injured throughout. No date. Beginning: آغاز سخن بسپاس و ستايش خداوند بى نياز الخ No. 259, ff. 435, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated heading on fol. 1b; size, 73/4 in. by 41/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 3131] 'Iyâr-alshu'arâ

<ul> <li> Iyâr-alshu’arâ'.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 702 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 3131 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 702 ‘Iyâr-alshu’arâ (عيار الشعرا ). The touchstone of poets, a very extensive, but utterly uncritical tadhkirah of Rekhta poets, by Khûb Ćand bin Bhawânî Ćand bin Râi Salâmatrâi bin ‘Ajâ’ib Râi Kâyath, with the takhalluṣ Dhakâ (acumen), or, as Sprenger reads, Dhukâ (sun), see fol. 2a , ll. 3 and 4, and fol. 137a, l. 9, a native of Dihlî, who lived in Sikandarâbâd, and compiled, or at least began to compile, this tadhkirah in A.H. 1208 =A.D. 1793, 1794, or 1213=A.D. 1798, 1799 (according to a rather ambiguous chronogram on fol. 2b, l. 8), at the request of his teacher Mîr Naṣîr-aldîn Naṣîr, see fol. 138a , l.7. The title appears on fol. 2b, l. 3. According to A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 184 and 185, he must have been engaged in this work more than thirty years, since a date as late as A.H. 1247 is found in it. He died A.H. 1262 (A.D. 1846). In the preface, on fol. 2a, l. 3 ab infra, he mentions his previous work, the ديوان ذكا . Beginning: حمد بيحدّ داورى را سزد كه به كلك قدرت نقش وجود انسان را بر كرسى الخ . The tadhkirah is arranged alphabetically, beginning with Âftâb, that is, the emperor Shâh ‘Âlam, on fol. 2b The author’s own biography, with copious extracts from his Rekhta poem, begins on fol. 137a. No date. No. 3131, ff. 474, ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 93/4 in. by 6 in.

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[IO Islamic 3255] Makhzan-i-Nikât

<ul> <li>Makhzan-i-Nikât.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 701 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 3255 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 701 Makhzan-i-Nikât ( مخزن نكات ) . The most valuable biography and anthology of the earlier Rekhta poets, written in Persian by Muḥammad Ḳiyâm-aldîn bin ‘Alî, with the takhalluṣ Ḳâ’im of Ćandpûr (see title and author’s name here on fol. 2a, ll. 6 and 8), comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 179 (it is one of the authorities used by Sprenger, in his most valuable alphabetical list of Rekhta poets). The title is a chronogram, giving as date of composition A.H. 1168 (A.D. 1754, 1755), comp. also fol. 75a, ll. 3 and 4. The author died A.H. 1210 or 1207 (A.D. 1795, 1796, or 1792, 1793), comp. A. Sprenger, loc. cit. Beginning: رنگينئ كلمات و دلنشين فقرات بحمد سخن پناهى است كه بناى الخ . It is divided into three ṭabaḳas (see fol. 2b, ll. 2 and 3), viz. : First ṭabaḳah (the older poets, در بيان اشعار شعراى متقدّمين ), on fol. 2b, beginning with Sa’dî, on fol. 3a, and ending with Mîr Ja’far, with the takhalluṣ Ja’far, the contemporary of Bidil (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 242, l. 21 sq.), on fol.13b. Second ṭabaḳah (the poets of the middle period, در ذكر كلام سخنوران متوسّطين ), on fol. 14a, beginning with Shâh Mubârak, with the takhalluṣ Âbrû (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 196, l. 5 sq.), on fol. 14b , and ending with the Afghân Kamtarîn (A. Sprenger, Catal.,p. 247, l. 18 sq.), on fol. 35a. Third ṭabaḳah (the modern poets, در بيان اشعار و احوال شعراى متأخّرين ), on fol. 35a, beginning with Mîr Shams-aldîn Faḳîr (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 223, l. 21 sq.), on fol. 36a, and ending with Ḳiyâm-aldîn ‘Alî (bin ‘Alî ?) Ḳâ’im, the author of this work. No date. No. 3522, ff. 86, ll. 11; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 – 83/4 in. by 61/8-63/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 1919] عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

<ul> <li>‘Ajâ’ib-almakhlûḳât wa gharâ’ib almaujûdât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 712 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 1919 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 712 ‘Ajâ’ib-almakhlûḳât wa gharâ’ib almaujûdât (عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات ). The same literal Persian prose-translation of the first part of Ḳazwînî’s cosmography which is described in G. Flügel ii. pp. 506-508 (styled there تحفة الغرائب ); the Bodleian Cat., Nos. 397 and 398; Rieu ii. p. 462 sq., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 367 sq.; comp. also Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 188; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 258 ; De Sacy, Chrestomathie Arabe, 1st cd., iii. p. 414 sq. Beginning the same as in the Arabic original, and in the copies of Vienna, the British Museum, and the Bodleian Library, viz.: العظمة لك و الكبرياء لجلالك اللّهمّ الخ . According to the colophon of the second Vienna copy this translation was completed in the month Jumâdâ I, A.H. 890 (A.D. 1485, May, June). Ḳazwînî’s name runs here as in most of the abovementioned copies: زكريّا بن محمّد بن محمود الكمونى القزوينى . The dedication to ‘Izz-aldîn Shâhûr bin ‘Uthmân, mentioned by Rieu, loc. cit., is found neither in this nor in the following copy. This Persian version has been printed in Ṭaharân, A.H. 1264 (A.D. 1848). No date. No. 1919, ff. 259, ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ, profusely illustrated throughout; illuminated frontispiece; size, 11 in. by 61/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 611] مرآت

<ul> <li>Mirât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 711 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 611 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 711 A defective copy of the same. The same second bâb of the Mirât in a shorter redaction (with omission of various passages and verses) and incomplete besides in consequence of a lacuna between ff. 21 and 27, comprising ff. 19a, l. 8-21a, l. 5 of the preceding copy. The proper order of the leaves is; ff. 1, 2, 26, 16-21, 27-94. Beginning on fol.26b, the same as in the preceding copies. An index on ff. 1a-2b. On the fly-leaf and the back of the binding the copy is incorrectly styledعجائب الدنيا . Dated the 20th of Rajab, A.H. 1074 (A.D. 1664, February 17), at Shâhjahânâbâd. No. 611, ff. 1a-2b, 16-21, and 26b-94a, 3-4 coll., each ll. 12-21, partly in diagonal lines; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 47/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 191] مرآت

<ul> <li>Mirât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 710 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 191 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 710 Another copy of the second bâb of the Mirât. The second bâb of the Mirât, with its proper title, غرائب الدنيا (which appears correctly here, on fol. 1a, whilst it is in other places incorrectly styled غرائب الدنيا و عجائب الاعلى , as if the copy included the third bâb also), quite agreeing with ff. 39b-233a in the preceding copy. Copied by Sayyid ‘Abd-alkarîm Rajâ’î; the year is omitted, only the 9th of Dhû-alḥijjah is given. Ff. 6-23 are misplaced; their right order is: 6, 15-22, 7-14, and 23. No. 191, ff. 129, 2 coll., each ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 51/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 78] مرآت

<ul> <li>Mirât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 709 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 78 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 709 Mirât (مرآت ) . The first two bâbs of the earliest Persian adaptation, as it appears, of the first part of the Arabic cosmography of Zakariyyâ bin Muḥammad bin Maḥmûd al-Ḳazwînî (died A.H. 682=A.D. 1283), the well-known عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات (Arabic text edited by Fr. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1848, German translation by Dr. H. Ethé, first volume, Leipzig, 1868), in the form of a mathnawî, by Shaikh Jalâl-aldîn Ḥamzah Âdhurî (or Âdharî) of Asfarâ’in (the author’s name is left out in this copy, but appears in the following one). Who flourished in the reign of Shâhrukh, and died A.H. 866 (A.D. 1461, 1462, comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 315 sq., and Rieu i. p. 43). Its proper title is مرآت, the mirror, or according to a colophon, on fol. 38a, عجائب و غرائب, wonderful and curious things (in Daulatshâh, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 316, and in the colophon of the present copy, عجائب الغرائب ; in Sir Gore Ouseley’s Catal., p. 2, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 161, عجائب المخلوقات , in the latter also عجائب الدنيا ), and it consists of four distinct bâbs, viz.: 1. طامّت الكبرى ; 2. غرائب الدنيا ; 3. عجائب الاعلى ; 4. كتاب سعى و صفا . Besides Ḳazwînî’s cosmography, which is usually styled here عجائب الدنيا , sometimes also عجائب المخلوق , other works have furnished materials for this poem, for instance, a كتاب حيات , a كتاب جواهر بركات , and others; comp. fol. 5a , ll. 1-11: چون خط و خال و غمزۀ معشوق – هست يكسر عجائب المخلوق از تواريخ وز كتاب حيات – وز كتاب جواهر بركات از جميع حديث وز تفسير – وانچه از تحفه بود عقل پذير وز كتاب عجائب الدنيا – نتوان كرد جمله را احصا صورت جمله آفرينش دوست – شد درينجا عيان چو مغز از پوست هست صورت نماى موجودات – زان سبب نام كردمش مرآت مشتمل شد چو برچهار ابواب – چار نام آمدش زچار كتاب اوّلين نسخه طامّت الكبراست – دومينش 1 عجائب الدنياست سيومينش عجائب الاعلى – نام چارم كتاب سعى وصفا ليك فحواى اين خجسته كتاب – بعد حمد مفتّح الابواب هست تفصيل علم موجودات – معرفت در كمال مخلوقات That the author intended his work for instruction and not for amusement, he clearly state in several passages, for instance, on fol. 4b, last line : اصل اين نسخه بر حكايت نيست غير تأويل علم و حكمت نيست on fol.5a, l. 12 : معرفت دان بناى اصل كتاب – كان بود فرض براولوا الباب and on fol.42b, last line: حرفهاى حقائق عالم – اندرين لوح برده ام بقلم Our copy contains only the first two bâbs, viz.: 1.طامّت الكبرى , on ff. 1b-38a, beginning: خالق الخلق و هو مولانا – ذكره بالتقدّم اولى This first bâb is a kind of introduction or preliminary discourse on the creation in general, and contains, after the usual praises of God, Muḥammad, etc., and an account of the reasons the author had for writing this poem, the following sections: تفصيل مراتب عالم عُلْوى و سُفْلى , on fol.6b. تبيين اسرار مخلوقات , on fol. 7a. بيان حكما در اصل خلقت عالم كون , on fol. 8b. سخن بعضى از علما در تحقيق ايجاد عالم and سخن بعضى از اهل توحيد , on fol.9a. اقوال مختلفه از هر طائفه در مادّۀ ايجاد عالم تحقيق حال بر سخن ارباب وحدت and تمثيل در باب اختلافات اشيا,on fol.10b. رجوع بكمالات قدرت الهى كه نامتناهى است , on fol.12b. كيفيّت صفات در مراتب موجودات , on fol. 13b. در حكمت وجود آدم كه خلاصۀ عالم است , on fol.14b. حكايت پسر روستائى و سرگذشت او، ذكر خاصّيّت ترتيب در اشيا از حكمت حق تعالى , on fol. 27b. مناسبت آفاق با انفس و كيفيّت حال آدمى , on fol. 30a. تمثيل در حقيقت حال انسان و كيفيّت اطوار , on fol.32b. حكايت آن دوست كه آئينه از براى حضرت يوسف برده , on fol. 34a. آغاز غرائب عالم و عجائب بنى آدم , on fol.35a. 2. غرائب الدنيا , on ff. 39b-233a, beginning: ابتدا ميكنم به بسم الله – كوست بر كلّ كائنات گواه The second bâb, two other copies of which are preserved in the Bodleian Library, see the full description of them in the Bodleian Cat., Nos. 402 and 403 (where by a confusion of this second bâb with the third, which has not yet been found anywhere, as title in the colophon is given غرائب الاعلى ), corresponds upon the whole to the muḳaddimah and the second maḳâlah of Ḳazwînî’s cosmography ( فى السُفليّات ), whereas the first maḳâlah of that work (فى العُلويّات ) is the subject of the third bâb, the عجائب الاعلى. After a praise of God and Muḥammad there follows here an explanation of the terms غريب and عجيب , after which the poetical description of all the sublunar things begins, in about the same order, as in Ḳazwînî’s work; the first section, on fol. 55a, deals with the غرائب جمادات, or the wonders of the inanimate things, general geography, longitude and latitude, mountains, wells, lakes, seas, islands, minerals, etc.; the following sections treat of plants, birds, huge beasts, Ghûls, monkeys, different sorts of men, and finally of man himself. Last verse: چون غرائب نداشت او انجام – ختم كرديم و الصلوة و السلام Dated the first of Rabî’-alâkhar, A.H. 1135 (A.D. 1723 , January 9) . No. 78, ff. 233, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 43/4 in.   1 That is a mere mistake for غرائب الدنيا , comp. fol. 38a, l. 11: شد بانجام طامّت الكبرا – بعد ازين در غرائب الدنيا and likewise ff. 41a, l. 10, and 41b, l.1.

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[IO Islamic 2543] عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

<ul> <li>‘Ajâ’ib-almakhlûḳât wa gharâ’ib almaujûdât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 713 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 2543 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 713 A defective copy of the same. No date. A lacuna of six leaves after fol. 273, corresponding to the preceding copy, fol. 237a, l. 6 to fol. 243a, l. 7 (which agree with the middle of line 2, on fol. 274a). Parts of ff. 17 and 24 torn away. The last leaf supplied later. The whole copy is, like the preceding one, profusely illustrated; in some places blanks are left which have not been filled in. Beginning: ربّ يسّر بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم ، العظمة (و) لك و الكبرياء لجلالك الخ. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2543, ff. 291, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, pictures throughout; size, 105/8 in by 61/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2725] صور الاقاليم

<ul> <li>Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 708 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 2725 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 708 Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm ( صور الاقاليم ). A geographical compendium, styled both in the colophon and on fol.1a صور الاقاليم, and identical with that described by Rieu i. p. 420 sq. The compiler, whose name is note mentioned, was a servant of Amîr Mubâriz-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldunyah wa-aldîn Muḥammad (see fol. 2b, l. 6). The founder of the Mużaffarî dynasty (blinded by his son Shâh Shujâ, A.H. 760=A.D. 1359). According to a passage in one of the British Museum copies this little book was composed A.H. 748 (A.D. 1347, 1348); comp. also Mélanges Asiatiques, vols. iv. p. 54, vi. P. 574, and vii. p. 43. Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... قال الله تبارك تعالى سنريهم آياتنا فى الآفاق و فى انفسهم حتّى يتبيّن لهم انّه الحقّ امّا بعد در تواريخ آمده كه چون سكندر بن فيلقوس الخ . It is divided into two bâbs: The first, subdivided into two faṣls, viz.: فصل اوّل در ذكر كرۀ زمين و مقدار و مساحت آن و معرفت طول و عرض بلدان و خواصّ مواضع (the terrestrial globe, its dimensions, etc.), on fol.3b. فصل دوم در ذكر آفاق جنوبى و خطّ استوا و ما يتعلّق و ينسب اليه ( the southern hemisphere, the equator, etc.), on fol. 12b. The second is subdivided into seven. faṣls, each dealing with one of the seven climates, on ff. 22b, 41a, 51a, 84a, 107a, 113a, and 117a. Dated the 12th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805, May 12). Bibliotheca. Leydeniana. No. 2725, ff. 1-130, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; Arabic quotations in Naskhî; size, 83/4. by 61/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 797] جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب

<ul> <li>Jadhb-alḳulûb ilâ dâr-almaḥbûb.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 721 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 797 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 721 Another copy of the same. Dated the 19th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1149(A.D.1736, October 25). Beginning the same as in the preceding copy. Bâb I, on fol.4b; II, on fol.8a, last line; III, on fol.22b; IV, on fol.25b; V, on fol.27b; VI, on fol. 38b; VII, on fol. 49b; VIII, on fol. 49b; IX, on fol.51b; X, on fol. 58a; XI, on fol. 61a; XII, on fol. 62a; XIII, on fol. 71a; XIV, on fol. 73a; XV, on fol.80b; XVI, on fol.87a; XVII, on fol. 95a. No. 797, ff. 105, ll. 22-24; very careless Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 93/4 in. by 61/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 785] جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب

<ul> <li>Jadhb-alḳulûb ilâ dâr-almaḥbûb.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 720 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 785 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 720 Jadhb-alḳulûb ilâ dâr-almaḥbûb (جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب ). Another Persian history and topography of Madînah, likewise based on Samhûdî’s researches, but chiefly on the larger work of the Arabic historian, viz. the وفاء الوفى باخبار دار المصطفى , which, as is stated here, is itself already an extract from a still larger, but unfinished work of Samhûdî, entitled امضاء الوفا ( correctly اقتفاء الوفا or اقتناء الوفا, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 512, where another complete copy of the Jadhb-alḳulûb is described, and Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 450, No. 14294), and composed A.H. 886 (A.D. 1481), by ‘Abd-alḥaḳḳ bin Saif-aldîn alturk aldihlawî albukhârî (the well-known author of the تأريخ حقّى , see above, No. 290; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 195-198 ; Rieu i. p. 223, etc.; the اخبار الاخيار, see above, No. 640, and many other works, died A.H. 1052=A.D. 1642, 1643), who also made use of Samhûdî’s smaller publications, the خلاصة الوفا باخبار دار المصطفى (see the previous copy), and a رساله on the burning and rebuilding of the mosque in Madînah. ‘Abd-alhaḳḳ began his Persian adaptation A.H. 998 (A.D. 1590) in Madînah, and completed it A.H. 1001 (A.D. 1593) in Dihlî, compare also Elliot, History of India, vi. p.176, and Rieu iii. p. 1055a, It is divided into the following seventeen bâbs: 1.در عدد اسماء اين بلدۀ عظيم الشان, on fol.6b. 2.ذكر در بيان فضائل و محامد اين بلدۀ عظيمۀ شريفه الخ, on fol. 11b. 3.در بيان اخبار سُكّان اين بقعۀ كرمت نشان در قديم الزمان تا وقت قدوم كرامت لزوم حضرت سيّد انام, on fol. 33a, last line. 4.در انبعاث باعثۀ قدوم سيّد كائنات بدين بلدۀ جامع البركات, on fol.39a. 5.درهجرت نمودن حضرت سيّد المرسلين از مكّۀ مکرّمه و رسيدن بارض مدينۀ مطيّبه , on fol. 42b. 6.در بيان عمارت مسجد معظّم حضرت ختم الانبيا و منبر عالى رتبت الخ, on fol. 66a. 7.در بيان تغيّرات و زيادات كه بعد از رحلت آنحضرت شريف از ائمّه و امرا و سلاطين وقوع يافت و ذكر اين اوضاع و احوال على سبيل الاختصار و الاجمال كه بعد زمان آنحضرت واقع شده, on fol.79a, last line. 8.ذكر بعضى از فضائل مسجد شريف و خصائص روضۀ منيف الخ, on fol. 88b. 9.در ذكر تأسيس مسجد قبا و سائر مساجد مأثورۀ نبوى که مشاهدۀ انوار مصطفی اند الخ, on fol. 93b. 10.ذكر بعضى آبار مباركه كه بحضور فائض النور آنحضرت مشهوراند و مأثور , on fol. 107a. 11.در بعضى اماكن منقبه و مشاهد شريفه كه در طريق مكّۀ معظّمه و مدينۀ منوّره مأثور و مشهوراند,on fol. 113a. 12.ذكر مقبرۀ شريفۀ بقيع و بيان فضائل و ذكر مقابر متبرّكه (كه) در وى مشهور و معلوم اند , on fol. 116b. 13.در بيان فضل جبل احد كه محبّ و محبوب سيّد الانبياست الخ, on fol. 134b. 14.در فضائل زيارت حضرت سيّد المرسلين ..... و اثبات حيات انبيا الخ,on fol. 139a. 15.در بيان زيارت قبر مكرّم سيّد المرسلين از وجوب (و) استحباب ....... و توسّل و استمداد بدين حضرت منقبت ذياب (ثياب read ) الخ, on fol. 152a. 16.در آداب زيارت فيض بشارت حضرت خير الانام و اقامت مدينۀ (؟ بمدينۀ ) مطيّبه ..... و رجوع بوطن بالخير و السّلام , on fol. 164a. 17.در ذكر فضائل و آداب صلوات بر سيّد كائنات الخ, on fol. 178b. Beginning: صد شكر كه از تشنگئ غم رَسْتم – چون قطره بدرياى كرم پیوستم الخ. In W. Pertsch, loc. cit., the title of the work is : جذب القلوب الى ديار المحبوب. It has been printed in Lucknow A.H. 1282 (A.D. 1865, 1866) and A.D. 1869. Dated A.H. 1061(A.D. 1651). No. 785, ff. 1-196, ll. 17; careless Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten throughout; size, 91/8 in. by 5 in.

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[IO Islamic 3033] عجائب الاقاليم

<ul> <li>‘Ajâ’ib-alaḳâlîm.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 717 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 3033 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 717 ‘Ajâ’ib-alaḳâlîm (عجائب الاقاليم ). A compendium of cosmography by an anonymous author, written, as Rieu i. p. 417 proves, about A.H. 908 or 909 (A.D. 1502, 1503), and dedicated to the wazîr Ghiyâth-almillah wa aldunyâ wa-aldin Ḥabîb-allâh (see here, fol. 114a, ll. 12 and 13). It is divided into a muḳaddimah, on geometry (در بيان آشنائى كه مقاصد برآن موقوفست ), on fol. 114a, last line; two maḳâlas, 1.Measurement and division of the globe and detailed account of the seven climates ( در مساحت سطح ارض و تعيين اقاليم و آنچه بدان متعلّق است ), on fol. 116a; 2.Measurement of the spheres and stars, etc. ( در معرفت مساحت افلاك و كواكب و آنچه بدان متعلّقست), on fol.155a; and a khâtimah on the times of prayers and the ḳiblah ( در ملحقات ), on fol. 160b. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى زيّن السماء بزينة الكواكب و نوّر وجه الغبراء الخ. Dated by Malik Muḥammad ibn Ḥâjî, end of Rajab, A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615, August 25). No. 3033, ff. 113-165, ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 53/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 785] Short Treatises

<ul> <li>Treatises.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 723 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 785 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 723 Two short treatises on Makkah, its topography, peculiarities and spiritual influences, based chiefly on Ḳurân verses and traditions; they are attached to the first copy of ׳Abd-alḥaḳḳ bin Saif-aldîn alturk aldihlawî׳s جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب (No. 720 above). The first is in Persian, and begins on fol. 201a: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و العاقبة للمتّقين و الصلوة و السّلام على رسوله افضل الحقّ سيّدنا محمّد و آله و اصحابه اجمعين بدان ايّدك الله تعالى الخ. The second is in Arabic, and begins on fol. 210b:بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم ........ و صحبه اجمعين كتاب الحسن بن الحسن البقرى الخ. No. 785, ff. 201-215, ll. 16; careless Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten: size, 91/8 in. by 43/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 3138] تحفة العجائب

<ul> <li>Tuḥfat-al’ajâ’ib.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 716 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 3138 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 716 Tuḥfat-al’ajâ’ib ( تحفة العجائب ). An older but greatly abridged Persian translation or rather adaptation of the same second volume of Ḳazwînî’s cosmography , the آثار البلاد, called here سبعة الاقاليم , and composed by ‘Alî Ṭâhirî (Ṭâ’irî in Rieu iii. p. 1059a), A.H. 928 (A.D. 1522), see fol.2b, ll. 9-11; fol.3a, l. 9; and fol. 196b, l. 1 (in Rieu, loc. cit., A.H. 948). Beginning: حمد بيحدّ صانعى را كه عجائب و غرائب عالم آثار ارقام قدرت اوست و منتهاى بى منتها الخ. The first Iḳlîm begins on fol. 4a; the second, on dol. 32b; the third, on fol. 53a; the fourth, on fol. 94a; the fifth, on fol. 144b; the sixth, on fol. 172a; the seventh, on fol. 187a, last line. A khâtimah or epilogue of the translator is found on fol. 194a, last line sq. Copied in the month Ramaḍân, A.H. 1056 (A.D. 1646, October, November), at Multân. No. 3138, ff. 196, ll. 15; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; splendid binding in gold and green; size, 121/8 in. by 71/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2995] Cosmography Compendium

<ul> <li>Cosmography Compendium.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 718 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 2995 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 718 A compendium of cosmography without title and author’s name. It begins forthwith with the muḳaddimah, which is subdivided into the following ten faṣls (compare fol. 145a, ll. 4 and 5): 1.در بيان اجمالئ پديد شدن عقل كلّ و نفس , on fol. 132b. 2.در بيان پديد آمدن افلاك و ترتيب ايشان , on fol.133a. 3.در گردش افلاك و مدّت دور هر يك , on fol. 134a. 4.در بيان پيدا شدن عناصر و مكان هر يك , on fol. 135a. 5.در بيان تقسيم عناصر, on fol. 135b. 6.در بيان كيفيّاتى كه لازم عناصر اند, on fol. 136b. 7.در بيان طبقات عناصر , on fol. 137b. 8.در بيان شكل افلاك و عناصر و چگونگئ ايستادن زمين, on fol. 139a. 9.در بيان معنى و حقيقت جسم, on fol. 140b. 10.از تقسيم جسم بسيط و مركّب, on fol. 142b. After this muḳaddimah there follow, on fol. 145a, twenty aṣls, viz.: 1.در بيان استحالت عناصر, on fol. 145a. 2.در سبب پيدا شدن بخار و دخان و بيان حقيقۀ ايشان, on fol. 149b. 3.در سبب پيدا شدن باد, on fol. 152a. 4.در بيان سبب پيدا شدن ابر, on fol. 154a. 5.در بيان سبب تولّد باران, on fol. 155b. 6.در بيان پديد شدن برف, on fol. 157a. 7.در بيان پديد آمدن تگرگ ( یخچه), on fol. 158a. 8.در بيان سبب حدوث نژم ( سرماريزگی ، شبنم or ژاله), on fol. 158b. 9.در بيان سبب پيدا شدن رعد, on fol. 159b. 10.در بيان سبب پیدا شدن برق, on fol. 160b. 11.در بيان سبب پیدا شدن صاعقه, on fol. 161b. 12.در بيان حدوث كواكب منقضّه و شهب و شهاب ناقب و كواكب ذوات الاذناب و كزاكب ذوات الذوائب , on fol. 163a. 13.در بيان علامات حمره يعنى سرخيها كه در آسمان پیدا ميشود الخ, on fol. 163b. 14.در پيدا شدن شُمَيْسك يعنى آفتابكها , on fol. 164b. 15.در بيان حدوث نيازك ( نيزك plural ), on fol. 166a. 16.در بيان سبب پیدا شدن قوس قزح , on fol. 166b. 17.در بيان سبب پديد آمدن هاله يعنى خرمن ماه , on fol. 172a. 18.در بيان پيدا شدن زلزله , on fol. 176b. 19.در بيان سبب آمدن آواز از زمين و بيرون آمدن باد و آتش از درون زمين , on fol. 177b. 20.در بيان پيدا شدن آب چشمه و آب كاريز و آب چاه , on fol. 178b. No date. No. 2995, ff. 132-180, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 93/4 in. by 61/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 176] اخبار حسينه در اخبار مدينه

<ul> <li>Akhbâr-i-ḥasînah dar akhbâr-i-Madînah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 719 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 176 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 719 Akhbâr-i-ḥasînah dar akhbâr-i-Madînah ( اخبار حسينه در اخبار مدينه ). History and topography of Madînah, a Persian translation of Samhûdî’s famous Arabic work خلاصة الوفا باخبار دار المصطفى , which extract from his larger work وفاء الوفى باخبار دار المصطفى was made by Samhûdî (died A.H. 911= A.D. 1505, 1506) himself, A.H. 893 (A.D. 1488), comp. Wûstenfeld, Geschichte der Stadt Medina im Auszuge aus dem Arab. Des Samhûdî in ‘Abhandluugen der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissen-schaften zu Göttingen,’ vol. ix. histor.-philol. Classe, pp. 1-156; J.Aumer, Arab. Cat., p. 144; Ḥ. Khalfa ii. p. 144, No. 2302, and vi. p. 450, No. 14294, etc. Two other (more or less defective) copies of this rare work (Elliott 362 and Walker 30) are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 138 and 139. The Persian translator’s name is not mentioned anywhere. The work is divided, like the Arabic original, into eight bâbs, comp. Wiener Jahrbücher 1835, vol. 70, Anzeigeblatt, p. 88. An index on ff. 4b-6b. باب اوّل در اسماء و فضل مدينۀ مشرّفه و بعضى فوائد ديگر كه بآن بلدۀ شريفه متعلّق است , on fol.6b, in ten faṣls. باب دويم در فضيلت زيارت و فضل (مسجد : adds 362 Elliott) نبوى صلّى الله عليه و سلّم و آنچه متعلق است بآن,on fol. 46b, in three faṣls. باب سيوم در اخبار سكّان مدينه از قديم تا زمان حلول قدوم شريف رسول صلّى الله عليه و سلّم , on fol. 76b, in three faṣls. باب چهارم در عمارت مسجد نبوى و آنچه متعلّق است بآن (و بیان احوال : adds 362 Elliott) حجرات ازواج طاهرات , on fol. 102b, in four faṣls. باب پنجم در مصلّاى عيد و مساجد نبويّه كه در مدينه است و بيان مقابر مدينه و فضل احد و شهداى او , on fol. 165b, in six faṣls. باب ششم در آبار مباركات مدينه و عين غراس ( و عيون و غراس : Elliott362 ) و صدقات كه منسوبست برسول صلّى الله عليه و سلّم, on fol. 196b, in two faṣls. باب هفتم در مساجدها كه منسوبست به پیغمبر صلّى الله عليه و سلّم كه در سفرها و غزوات مباركه در آن مسجد (ها) نماز كرده اند , on fol. 206b, in three faṣls. باب هشتم در ادويه ( واحمّا : Elliott 362 adds ) و آطام و بعضى اعمال و جبال مدينۀ مشرّفه على ساكنها افضل الصّلوات , on fol. 213b, in two faṣls. Beginning: سپاس بسيار و ستايش بيشمار پروردگارى را كه مشرّف ساخت مدينۀ پر سكينه را باقامت الخ. Copied in the month Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1004 (A.D. 1596, February). No. 176, ff. 265, ll. 15; large Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten throughout; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 113/8 in. by 63/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 100] جذب القلوب الى دار المحبوب

<ul> <li>Jadhb-alḳulûb ilâ dâr-almaḥbûb.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 722 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 100 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 722 The same. No date. Bâb I, on fol.8b; II, on fol. 15b; III, on fol. 49a; IV, on fol. 56b; V, on fol. 61a; VI, on fol. 87b; VII, on fol. 102a, last line; VIII, on fol. 113b; IX, on fol. 120a; X, on fol. 136a; XI, on fol. 143b; XII, on fol. 147b; XIII, on fol. 171a; XIV, on fol. 176b; XV, on fol. 192b; XVI, on fol. 207b, first line; XVII, on fol. 226b. No. 100, ff. 251, ll. 13; very negligent Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/8 in. by 45/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 2547] سَيْر البلاد

<ul> <li>Sair-albilâd.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 715 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 2547 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 715 Sair-albilâd ( سَيْر البلاد ). A literal Persian translation of the second part of Ḳazwînî’s great cosmographical work, the آثار البلاد و اخبار العباد or geographical section, by Muḥammad Murâd bin ‘Abd-alraḥmân, who dedicated it to Nawwâb Mûsawîkhân (with his original name Mîr ‘Alî Aṣghar, who died A.H. 1054= A.D. 1644, 1645, see Rieu iii. p.991b, where extracts from this work are noticed), see fol. 10b, ll. 1, 3, and 14. It must have been composed between A.H. 1037, the year of Shâhjahân’s accession, who is mentioned as reigning sovereign, and A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1628-1645, see Rieu, loc. cit.) Beginning, on fol. 9b: حمد عالى اساس و سپاس بيرون از حدّ و قياس مالك الملكى را درخور و سزاست الخ. The translation begins with first muḳaddimah, on fol.10b, corresponding to the Arabic text, ed. Wüstenfeld , p.٤٠ First IḲlîm, on fol. 14b; second on fol. 52b; third, on fol.98b; fourth, on fol.188a; fifth, on fol. 314a; sixth, on fol.368a ; seventh, on fol. 387a. On ff. 1b-8b an index of the whole work, divided into two sections, the first of which gives all the geographical names, the second, beginning on fol.6a, lin. penult., and incomplete at the end, the names of Imâms, Shaikhs, etc., mentioned in the book. Another complete copy of this translation is in the Bodleian Library, see Bodleian Cat., No. 400. No date. The original part of the MS. comprises ff. 53-372, all the leaves before and after that have been supplied by the same later hand. No. 2547, ff.394, ll. 21; large Nasta’lîḳ, by two different hands; size, 11 in. by 63/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 3243] عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

<ul> <li>‘Ajâ’ib-almakhlûḳât wa gharâ’ib almaujûdât .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 714 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 3243 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 714 ‘Ajâ’ib-almakhlûḳât wa gharâ’ib-almaujûdât ( عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات). One of the finest specimens of modern India calligraphy and illuminating art, written at the request of Mr. Charles Raikes, Commissioner and Superintendent of Lâhûr, under the supervision of Muftî ‘Alî-aldîn of Lâhûr, by Faḍl-aldîn bin Muḥammad Bakhsh Ṣaḥḥâf of Lâhûr, and completed the 21st of September, A.D. 1854 (see the title-page, fol. 1a). According to a note by Mr. Raikes himself, fastened to the first fly-leaf, this MS. was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris, for works of art and industry, by the Punjab Committee at Lahore. The India Office Library received it from Dr. Royale, July, 1856. The Persian translation of the first part of Ḳazwînî’s cosmography, contained in this copy, is the more modernized one, which was made under Abû-almużaffar Ibrâhîm ‘Âdilshâh I (see fol. 5a, l. 6), who reigned from A.H. 941 to 965 (A.D. 1534-1558), and completed in the beginning of Sha’bân, A.H. 954 (see ff. 8b, last line, and 9a, l. 1)= A.D. 1547, second half of September; it is described in Rieu ii. p. 464b. This version has been lithographed at Lucknow, A.H. 1283 (A.D. 1866). Beginning like the Arabic original, on fol.3b: العظمة لك و الكبرياء لجلالك اللهمّ يا قائم الذات و مفيض الخيرات واجب الوجود الخ. Beginning of the translator’s preface, on fol.4b:امّا بعد در عهد خلافت و ايّام سلطنت پادشاه عاليجاه عالم پناه گردون سلطنت و خلافت دستگاه الخ. The name of the author of the Arabic original appears on fol.5b, ll. 2 and 3, in this form: عماد الدين زكريّا بن محمّد بن محمود الكمونى القرونى (؟ القزوينى)، . The four muḳaddimas appear here on ff. 9a ( در عجب و معنئ آن), 19b ( در تقسيم مخلوقات ), 21b (درمعنئ غريب ), and 26a ( فى تقسيم الموجودات). A complete index on ff. 27a-30a. Beginning of the main portion of the work on fol. 30b, corresponding to the Arabic original, p. ١٥, of Wüstenfeld’s edition: الحمد لله خالق الاشياء مدبّر الكلّ الخ. First maḳâlah, on fol. 31a; second maḳâlah, on fol. 145a. It is profusely illustrated throughout with first-class drawings. The greater part of the margin is covered partly with short explanatory glosses or tracts closely related to the text of Ḳazwînî’s work,-as for instance a زكى نامه on lucky and unlucky days, on fol.33b ; اختيارات قمرى, on fol. 35b; تسخير كواكب , on ff. 36a and 36b ; a روزنامچۀ ستارها, on fol. 42b ; دعاء بر كشتى نشستن ,on fol. 70a; روزنامه , on fol. 109b ; اختيارات ساعات, on fol. 112a, etc. ; كيفيّت تقسيم زمين , on fol. 229b sq.; تركيب برس , on fol. 293a ; عمل زعفران, on fol. 296a sq.; عمل تنگار (borax), on fol. 302a ;خواص گل ارمنى, on fol. 304a ; صاف مرواريد and خواصّ مرواريد, on fol. 313a ; and a great number of other explanations of mineral and botanical matters; a botanical glossary, on fol. 378a sq.; خواصّ جغرات, on fol.481a; خواصّ شيرهاء جانوران , on fol. 481b, etc.; نرم گردن دندان فيل and تسخير فيل مست, on fol. 510a, etc. etc. (talismans in great variety being scattered throughout the margin), -- partly with independent treatises of various kinds, in a smaller, but equally neat hand. The larger sections of these marginal additions are as follows: 1.Ff. 4b-17a : A treatise on simple drugs ( رساله در كلّيّات تحقيقات ادويهاى مفرده ) in nine faṣls (not eight as is stated in the beginning, since there appears on fol. 10b a فصل نهم در حاجتمندئ طبيبان بساختن ادويۀ مركب ) . Fol. 10b of this tract must be immediately followed by fol. 12a, since ff. 11a and 11b are mere repetitions of ff. 10a and 10b. Beginning: امّا بعد حمد خدا و نعت محمّد مصطفى صلّى الله عليه و سلّم اين رساله ايست در كلّيّات ....... فصل اوّل بدانكه ادويهاى مفرده سه جاى مبدى ميشود معدنى و نباتى و حيوانى الخ . This treatise is followed on ff. 13a-15a by an appendix on the names of all the diseases of the various part of the human body, and on ff. 15a-17a by a series of mystic mathnawî-baits, taken for the greater part from theگلشن راز. 2.Ff. 18b-19a :Two فالنامه, the first styled فالنامۀ حضرت شاه شرف الدين احمد بن يحيى منيرى (see the Maṭlûb-alṭâlibîn,16th maṭlab, No. 41 in the list of pupils); the second فالنامۀ حضرت امير المؤمنين على. 3.Ff. 19b-20b: A story of Nîmrûd, and some metaphysical maxims, styled معتقدات حكما. 4.Ff. 21b-22a: ديباچه مجمل الحكمة, beginning : سپاس و منّت موجوديرا كه واجب الوجود است و هر چه جزويست ممكن الوجود است الخ. 5.Ff. 48a-51b: Two treatises on music, the first (در علم موسيقى ) being an abstract of a work مفتاح السرور ( probably مفتاح السرود, a work on Indian music by Ḳâḍî Ḥusain, composed A.H. 1084 = A.D. 1673, 1674, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 84); the second (on fol. 49a) simply styledدر موسيقى, and beginning: بدانكه موسيقى تأليف است و وضع حكماست و نهاد آن روحست الخ. 6.Ff. 73b-75b: Mathnawî-baits (simply styled منظوم), by Shâh Faḍl Ni’matî, beginning: هر چه در آفاق بود ايجوان – هست ورا نقش چو بينى عيان , followed, on fol. 75a, by short extracts from Dârâ Shukûh’s مجمع البحرين (the confluence of the two seas, composed A.H. 1065 = A.D. 1655, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1241, 13). 7.Ff.87a-93b: رساله در حقيقت عالم, a cosmographical tract, beginning: بايد دانست كه جملۀ عالم که موجود است یازده گروهست و آفتاب در میانست الخ. The metaphysical part of it begins o fol. 90a, with a مقدّمۀ روح, followed by a مقدّمۀ نفس, etc. and concluding with an علامت قيامت (on fol. 92a); appended to it are a short chapter: خواصّ دابّة الارض (with reference, as it seems, to a verse of the Ḳurân, Sûrah 34, 13), a series of mathnawî-baits, headed در بيان حقيقت روح, and some further lines in prose on the same subject. 8.Ff. 96b-100b: Short tracts on mystical and religious matters in general, viz. رسالۀ فقر, مقدّمۀ معراج , مقدّمۀ بهشت و دوزخ (twice), احوال دوزخ, در مفاصلۀ سنين در ميان پيغمبران, در حقيقت خلفاى راشدين, در بيان ايمان, در بيان مذاهب, (Sûrah 82, 11 ) مقدّمۀ كراماً كاتبين در بيان توبه, and مقدّمۀ صراط ميزان و سؤال. 9.Ff. 101a-102a and 103a-109a: Prayers, invocations, and Ḳurân-verses. 10.Ff. 123b-126a and 128b: Two other فالنامه. 11.Ff. 137a-140b: A treatise on the peculiarities of special months and days. 12.Ff. 143a-148b, 141a-142b, and 149a-154a: Three night-discourses ( سمر, so to be read instead of شمر ; the only correct spelling is found on fol. 145a, l. 3), properly beginning on fol. 144a, since fol. 143a is merely a repetition of this; a treatise on the foreboding palpitation of the limbs, on fol. 145a ; a tract on physiognomy (رسالۀ قيافه ), on fol. 146a; a longer treatise on health, abridged from a work of Sayyid Ismâ’îl Ḥusainî Jurjânî ( the author of the ذخيرۀ خوارزمشاهى , see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1576-1578, died A.H. 531=A.D. 1136, 1137), styled حفظ الصحّة (on hygiene), in sixteen bâbs, viz. 1. در تدبير هوا , on fol. 147b; 2. در تدبير فصلهاى سال, on fol. 148a; 3. در تدبير شهر و خانه و مسكن, on fol. 148b; 4. در تدبير پارچۀ جامه پوشیدن , ib.; 5. در تدبير غذا , ib.; 6. در تدبير آب , on fol. 141a (the order of the margins is wrong here, although that of the centre-column is quite correct); 7. در تدبير شراب , on fol. 141b; 8. در خواب و بيدارى , on fol. 142a ; 9. در حركت و سكون , ib.; 10. در تدبير استفراغ طبعيّت يعنى دواى مسهل خوردن , on fol. 142b; 11. Here styled by mistake باب پنجم , to conceal the confusion of the margins : در تدبيرقى كردن , on fol. 149a; 12. در تدبير فصد, on fol. 149b; 13. در تدبير استفراغها, on fol. 150a; 14. در انقراض نفسانى, on fol. 151a; 15. در تدبير پيران, on fol.152a; 16. اندر ترتيب و تدبير مسافران, on fol. 152b; and some mathnawî baits on hygienic matters, on ff. 152b-154a, divided into the following sections: در علامات ، در مقدّمۀ قاروره ، در مقدّمۀ نبض شناختن در تدبير احكام پیران ، خير و شر, and در تدبير صحّت. 13. Ff. 163a-187b : A series of longer and shorter tracts on various interesting points of Ṣûfism, as عشق, طريق, etc., mostly without any heading; the few sections which bear a distinct title, are: رساله در شرح بيت مولوئ روم ; commentary on a verse of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî, on fol. 164b, beginning : بيزارم از آنكنه خدائى كه تو دارى هر لحظه مرا تازه خدائى دگرست من رموزات شيخ عبدالجامل لكنوى, on fol. 172b, beginning: بعد حمد خدا ودرود مصطفى وآله و اصحابه بدانكه نزديك صوفيۀ محقّقين در راه خدا چهار منزلست شريعت و طريقت و حقيقت و معرفت الخ. رسالۀ طریقۀ نقشبنديّه, on fol. 180a, beginning: سررشتۀ دولت اى برادر بكف آر وين عمر كرامى بخسارت مگذار چند سؤال و جواب, on fol. 181b, and رسالۀ حضرت خواجه عبدالله انصارى (invocations to God, by the famous Shaikh ‘Abdallâh Anṣârî of Harât, who died A.H. 481=A.D. 1088, comp. the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 300), on fol. 185a, beginning: اى كريمى كه بخشندۀ عطائى – واى حكيمى كه پوشندۀ خطائى . 14.Ff. 193a-196a: Extracts from Niżâmî’s خسرو و شيرين , beginning with سؤال و جواب چند خسرو پرويز با بزرگ امید ،. 15.Ff. 196a-199a: رساله در ورد ماهيّت هر چیز , a kind of metaphysical tract in form of a vocabulary, beginning: بدانكه اين رسالت ايست در تحقيقات معنئ چیزها كه حكماء غور نموده برآوردند شروع از عقل نموده شد بدانكه عقل اسميست مشترك الخ. 16.Fol. 208a: تورايخ حضرتان, a few chronological dates about great Shaikhs, beginning with Bâyazîd Bisṭâmî (died A.H. 261 = A.D. 875) and ending with Aḥmad-i-Jâm (died A.H. 536=A.D. 1141, 1142), see the Safînat-alauliyâ, Nos. 66 and 308. 17.Ff. 227b-229b: Extracts from Niżâmî’s اسكندر نامۀ بحرى , beginning with سؤال سكندر ذو القرنين از حكما در مقدّمۀ پيدايش خلقت اوّل آسمان و زمين و بيان نمودن هر يك موافق علم خود ،. 18.Ff. 239a-246a: A treatise on the peculiarities of women (رساله در خاصّيّت زنان ), beginning : ببايد دانست كه زنان بر چهار نوع اند الخ, with a special chapter, entitled : در معرفت كيفيّت رحم و شناختن اوقات, on fol. 240b sq.; after this treatise there follow, on fol. 243a sq., several traditions and a great number of charms. 19.Ff. 246b-248a: An arithmetical tract, styled بعضى قواعد علم تكسير , beginning : قاعده ، بدانكه مربّع دو قسم است الخ. 20.Ff. 248a-255a: A short medical tract, ascribed to Avicenna (رسالۀ بو على سينا در امراض بعضى دوا), and a number of arithmetical pieces, one of which is headed (on fol. 249b) : مقدّمات حساب هندسه, or introduction to astronomical calculations. The rest are without special headings. 21.Ff. 255b-266b: Arts and games, consisting of – (a) A kind of game, in which any possible combination of two letters of the Persian alphabet is explained by a Persian fard, for instance, ش ا : در كف دست خويش زر دارى , on fol. 255b. (b) Two treatises on archery, the first (on fol. 256a), styled: خواصّ چند مقدّمۀ تيراندازى, and beginning: اوّل بدانكه ابتداى نزول تير و كمان آنست كه چون آدم الخ ; the second ( on fol. 258b): رقعه بر (تير) اندازى . (c) An introduction into geomancy (در مقدّمۀ رمل ), on fol. 259b. (d) Introduction to card-playing and chess ( مقدّمۀ گنجفه and مقدّمۀ شطرنج ), on fol. 263b. (e) Various forms of chirography ( در بيان انواع خطّها ), on fol. 264a. (f) A tract styled تركيب سياهى و روشنائى, on fol. 265a. 22.Ff. 267a-275b : خلاصۀ تورایخ, an abridgment of a general history in various ṭâ’ifas, from the creation down to the emperor Bahâdurshâh, beginning: منتخب’ در تواريخ و مشاهير سير از احوال ابوالبشر آدم صفى الله صلوات الله عليه تا خير البشر محمدّ رسول الله الخ. The comparatively more detailed portion ends, on fol. 273b, with the seventh ṭâ’ifah, on the descendants of Ćingîzkhân; the remainder consists of mere lists of the Indian Râjahs, taken from the راجاولى (so to be read instead of the wrong spelling راجاونى, see Nos. 205 and 206 in this Cat.), and of the emperors of Dihlî. As a sort of appendix a list of all the battles is added (on fol. 275a) which Muḥammad fought against the unbelievers; they are sixty-five altogether; twenty-seven he conducted personally; in thirty-eight only his army was engaged. 23.Ff. 403a-404a: Luḳmân’s advice to his son ( پند نامۀ لقمان حكيم بفرزند خود), beginning: بعد از حمد ملك ملك علاّم و درود بر محمّد عليه السّلام و متابعت اهل اسلام چند پند سودمند است كه لقمان حكيم بفرزند خود فرمود ‘ اى فرزند خدا شناس و هر چه از پند و نصیحت گوئى الخ. Comp. on this little tract the Bodleian Cat., No. 1241, 44. 24.Ff. 404a-410b: Short stories and traditions, beginning with a حكايات اعرابى, which opens thus: در خبر است كه روزى حضرت محمّد رسول الله صلعم با صحابۀ كرام نشسته بودند الخ . On fol. 408a, a نظم در اخبار حميده, beginning: تقوى و خوف حسب اخلاص زهد و علم الخ. On fol. 409a, a short tract: نكات بزرگان. 25.Ff. 410b-417a: A series of نصائح or good advices, and other tracts of practical philosophy, beginning with رسالۀ نصائح حكما, which opens thus: الحمد لله .... امّا بعد اين رساله ايست مشتمل بر آنكه حكما از كتب قديم اختيار كرده اند و فوائد بسيار الخ. On fol. 412a, a مقولۀ ميان محمّد و عمر ; on fol. 413a, نصائح درويشى ; on fol. 415b, بعضى قول حكما. 26.Ff. 417b-418b: كنيز الرموز, a collection of philosophic maxims, in ten faṣls, beginning: اين رساله ايست مشتمل بر ده فصل قول حكما كه كنيز الرموز نام دارد الخ. 27.Ff. 423b-438a, 441a-450a, 451b-453a, and 457a-461b: Medical prescriptions against all kinds of diseases, and tracts of a similar kind. 28.Ff. 462a-464b: Mystical tracts, on the Ḳiblah, on fol. 462a; on the terminology of Ṣûfis (در اصطلاحات اهل تصوّف ), on fol. 462b; طريقهاء اذكار فقرا, on fol. 463a; من رشحات طريق , on fol.464a; طريقۀ اهل هند, on fol. 464b. 29.Ff. 473a-479a: Another series of medical prescriptions. 30.Ff. 526a-530a, 534b-535a, and 538a. Prescription for making the elixir of life (تركيب كيميا ) and a series of small tracts on sexual intercourse, usually headed قوّت باه. 31.Ff. 549b-550a, 552a-554a, 555b-559a, 564a-566a, 570a and 570b, and 572b-574a: A third series of medical prescriptions. No.3243, ff. 588, ll. 15; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; four grandly embellished stars on ff. 1b, 2a, 587b, and 588a; four full-sized pictures on. ff. 2b, 3a, 586b, and 587a; three splendidly illuminated frontispieces on ff. 3b, 4a (the pages themselves adorned in magnificent colours), and 30b, a smaller one besides, on fol.27b; the lines of the title-page (fol.1a) surrounded by broad stripes of gold; size, 153/8 in. by 91/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2409] بهجة العالم

<ul> <li>Bahjat-al’âlam.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 729 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 2409 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 729 Bahjat-al’âlam (بهجة العالم). A modern work on general geography, by Ḥakîm Mahâratkhân of Iṣfahân, styled بهجة العالم (see fol. 2a, l. 2 and colophon). It is the first volume (مجلّد اول) of a larger work; a second volume, entitled روضة الافراح, and comprising Persian translations of several Arabic works, for instance, جريدة العجائب, تحفة الالباب, and others, is promised in the preface of this book. The author lived at the time of the emperor Bahâdurshâh, whose death in A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712) appears as a recent event, and must have compiled this volume about A.H. 1130 (A.D. 1718), comp. the short extract from it described in Rieu iii. p. 992. The present MS. contains: 1.A general part, dealing with the seven climates, in an arrangement similar to the Haft Iḳlîm, but without any biographical notices. Iḳlîm I, on fol. 2b; II, on fol. 7a; III, on fol. 16b; IV, on fol. 51b; V, on fol. 87b; VI, on fol. 93b; VII, on fol. 102a. 2.A special part, dealing with particular points of geographical interest in detail. The chief subdivisions of this part are: (a) ذكر بعضى از بلاد متفرّقه, on fol. 104b, beginning with a description of the countries of Rûm (ممالك روم), taken from the Hasht Bihisht (No. 571 above); followed by an account of India, according to the fourth volume of the Akbarnâma (see fol. 121a, first line), i.e. the آئين اكبرى, which is usually called the third book (see Nos. 264-270 above), but which, on account of the usual division of the first book into two separate parts, may very well be called the fourth; miscellaneous notes on various towns and provinces (see fol. 126b), extracted from a work styled انيس العارفين, etc. (b)ذكر بعضى از عجائب جزائر, on fol. 144b, taken chiefly from Ḳazwînî’s عجائب المخلوقات (Nos. 712-714 above). (c) ذكر بعضى از عجائب جبال يعنى كوها, on fol. 151b. (d) ذكر بعضى از عجائب انهار, on fol. 156a. (e)ذكر بلاد مغرب زمين, on fol. 159a, last line. Beginning: الحمد لله .... و بعد چون دريافت غرائب مبرعات و عجائب مصبوعات حكيم قدير الخ. Dated the 17th of Rajab, A.H. 1211 (A.D. 1797, Jan. 16). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2409, ff. 171, ll. 19; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 135/8 in. by 83/8 in.

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