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[IO Islamic 1366] انتخاب هفت اقليم
<ul> <li><strong>Intikhâb-i-Haft Iḳlîm.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 727 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1366 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>727</p> <p>Intikhâb-i-Haft Iḳlîm (انتخاب هفت اقليم).</p> <p>An abridgment of the Haft Iḳlîm, made by Faiḍ-allâh Anṣârî Jaunpûrî, with the takhalluṣ Himmat (see fol. 4<sup>b</sup>, l. I), and dedicated to Wajîh-aldîn ‘Alîkhân Bahâdur, who is called the master of the sword and pen (صاحب السيف و القلم ), see fol. 4<sup>a</sup>, l. 1 sq. A date of this compilation, which simply gives the geographical accounts of the Haft Iḳlîm in a condensed form, omitting all the biographical details, is not found.</p> <p>Beginning: ستايش وآفرين آفريننده را كه معمورئ هفت اقليم الخ.</p> <p>Iḳlim I, on fol. 5<sup>b</sup>; II, on fol. II<sup>b</sup>; III, on fol. 22<sup>a</sup>; IV, on fol. 78<sup>a</sup>; V, on fol. 102<sup>a</sup>; VI, on fol. 113<sup>b</sup>; VII, on fol. 127<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>No date. This rather modern copy belonged formerly to Mr. Richard Johnson.</p> <p>No. 1366, ff. 132, ll. 13; Shikasta; worm-eaten; size, 8<sup>1/8 </sup>in. by 4<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1653] هفت اقليم
<ul> <li><strong>Haft Iḳlîm.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 726 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1653 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>726</p> <p>An incomplete copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy opens abruptly in the third Iḳlîm with the words: واو بخدمت خواجه حسن رفنه, corresponding to fol. 60<sup>b</sup>, l. 5, in the preceding copy. Iḳlîm IV, on fol. 131<sup>a</sup>; V, on fol. 408<sup>b</sup>; VI, on fol. 480<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 498<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Dated A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682) by ‘Abd-alraḥmân bin Muḥammad Ṭâhir bin Khwâjah Aḥmad. There are 48 leaves missing in the beginning.</p> <p>No. 1653, ff. 501, ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12 in. by 7 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 785] هفت اقليم
<ul> <li><strong>Haft Iḳlîm.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 725 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 785 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>725</p> <p>Another splendid copy of the Haft Iḳlîm.</p> <p>This splendid copy is without an index. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy. Iḳlîm I, on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>; II, on fol. 14<sup>a</sup>; III, on fol. 42<sup>b</sup>; IV, on fol. 224<sup>b</sup>; V, on fol. 554<sup>a</sup>; VI, on fol. 638<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 658<sup>b</sup>. Fol. 474 must be inserted between ff. 448 and 449.</p> <p>Dated, by Shaikh Muḥammad Islâm of Aḥmadâbâd, the 21st of Rabî׳-althânî, A.H. 1089 (A.D. 1678, June 12). This copy was purchased from the executors of the Marquis of Hastings.</p> <p>No. 3143, ff. 662, ll. 21; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; many marginal additions; splendid binding in green and gold; size, 10<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 611] Historical and Geographical Extracts
<ul> <li><strong>Extracts.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 728 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 611 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>728</p> <p>Historical and geographical extracts.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.A few extracts from a تأريخ مير ابراهيم الحسينى الموسوى (not met with hitherto), on ff. 8<sup>a</sup>-15<sup>b</sup>, 22 and 23, consisting of short accounts of the emperors Akbar, Jahângîr, Shâhjahân, etc.</p> <p>2.Extracts from the Haft Iḳlîm, beginning with a ذكر هفت اقليم (a general account of the seven climates, somewhat like the preceding انتخاب), on ff. 99<sup>a</sup>-151<sup>b</sup>, and concluding with a مجملئ سلاطين دهلى كه در هفت اقليم آورده بتحرير مى آرد (the general account of the Muḥammad rulers of Dihlî, which is found on fol. 153<sup>a</sup>, first line sq. in No. 724, col. 406 above), on ff. 153<sup>a</sup>-176<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>3.Another extract from the تأريخ مير ابراهيم, containing a تعريف امصار (description of cities), and beginning with Akbarâbâd, ff. 177<sup>a</sup>-190<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>An index of these miscellanies is found on ff. 2<sup>b</sup>-7<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 611, ff. 2<sup>b</sup>-15, 22, 23, 99-190, ll. 21; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>7/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1718] مسافت شهرهاى هندوستان
<ul> <li><strong>Masâfat-i-Shahrhâi Hindûstân.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 732 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1718 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>732</p> <p>Masâfat-i-Shahrhâi Hindûstân (مسافت شهرهاى هندوستان).</p> <p>Tables showing the distance of the different provinces, districts, and towns of India from one another, according to the statistic survey under the Moghul emperors, especially under Shâhjahân (see fol. 4<sup>b</sup> sq.). It begins with a short index of the provinces of Îrân. The principal portion of this little book, dealing with India proper, begins on fol. 3<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>This copy was made for Mr. Richard Johnson by Muḥammad Bakhsh, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780), at Lucknow.</p> <p>No. 1718, ff. 28; Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 5<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2450] احوال عمارات مستقرّ الخلافة
<ul> <li><strong>Aḥwâl-i-’Imârât-i-Mustaḳirr-alkhilâfah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 731 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2450 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>731</p> <p>Aḥwâl-i-’Imârât-i-Mustaḳirr-alkhilâfah (احوال عمارات مستقرّ الخلافة).</p> <p>A topographical and historical account of the principal public buildings, mausoleums, mosques, and gardens of Akbarâbâd, i.e. Âgra, especially those built by Akbar and Shâhjahân, compiled, from various sources, by a pupil of Âgra Government College, Sil Ćand (سيلچند), see fol. 6<sup>b</sup>, l. 4, and colophon, at the request of Mr. James Stephen Lushington (مستر جمس اسفين السكين), comp. ff. 5<sup>a</sup>, l. 2, and 6<sup>a</sup>, ll. 7 and 8; and Rieu iii. p. 1031. This gentleman, who was acting collector and magistrate in Âgra, 1825 and 1826, had issued an appeal to the Government College, to supply him with such topographical accounts, and he received besides the present work a smaller treatise on the same subject, by Mânik Ćand, headed احوال شهر اكبرآباد, see Rieu iii. p. 958.</p> <p>Beginning:سبحان الله ذرّۀ بيتاب را بحضور خورشيد دستگاه عجز طرازى است الخ.</p> <p>On fol. 4<sup>a</sup> a eulogium of the Governor-General of India.</p> <p>Among the numerous chapters we mention as the most interesting ones;</p> <p>Fortress of Âgra, with a table of inscriptions, on fol. 24<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Môtî Masjid, with illustration, on fol. 30<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Tâj Maḥall, with illustration, on fol. 51<sup>b</sup> sq.</p> <p>Letters and firmâns of Shâhjahân, ‘Âlamgir, Dârâ Shukûh, etc., on fol. 59<sup>b</sup> sq.</p> <p>Mausoleum of I’timâd-aldaulah, with illustration, on fol. 104<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Account of Nûr Jahân Begam, on fol. 120<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Akbar’s mausoleum at Sikandra, with illustration, on fol. 193<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Mosque at Fatḥpûr, with illustration, on fol. 210<sup>b</sup>, last line sq.</p> <p>This Kitâb-i-’Imârat (كتاب عمارت), as it is styled in the colophon (another title given to it is حالات اكبرآباد, see Rieu, loc. cit.), was transcribed from the original copy of Sîl Ćand, who was a student at the Madrasah Âgra, by وسشن ضلع, for Mr. James Davidson (مستر جمس ديودسن); no date. The copy was purchased of Madden & Co., 1st of August, 1843. Special works on the topography of the Tâj Maḥall are noticed in Rieu i. p. 430 and iii. p. 958<sup>b</sup>; Mehren, Cat., p. 47, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 520.</p> <p>No. 2450, ff. 218, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; five excellent full-page illustrations and a table of inscriptions; size, 9<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1425] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 734 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1425 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>734</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Beginning: حمد و ثنا قيّومى را كه عجز ذرّيات آدم را از ادراك الخ.</p> <p>Index, on ff. 5<sup>a</sup>-14<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Bâb I, on fol. 14<sup>b</sup>; II, not marked; III, on fol. 33<sup>b</sup>; IV, on fol. 59<sup>a</sup>; V, on fol. 81<sup>b</sup>; VI, on fol. 130<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 152<sup>a</sup>; VIII, on fol. 247<sup>a</sup>; IX, on fol. 273<sup>a</sup>; X, on fol. 290<sup>a</sup>; XI, on fol. 300<sup>b</sup>; XII, on fol. 319<sup>b</sup>; XIII, on fol. 352<sup>b</sup>. No date. A great number of headings in the single ḥikâyas are quite incorrect.</p> <p>No. 1425, ff. 413, ll. 19; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1664] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 733 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1664 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>X. ROMANCES AND TALES.</p> <p>733</p> <p>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah (ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة).</p> <p>A large collection of stories, relating cases of wonderful deliverance from danger, translated by Ḥusain bin As’ad bin alḥusain aldihistânî (see fol. 5<sup>a</sup>) from the Arabic work الفرج بعد الشدّة و الضيقة, which is here (on fol. 5<sup>b</sup>) and in all the other copies wrongly ascribed to Abû-alḥasan ‘Alî bin Muḥammad almadâ’inî (who died in Baghdâd, A.H. 224 or 225=A.D. 839 or 840).</p> <p>The real author of the Arabic original, often mentioned in this translation, is Abû ‘Alî al-Muḥassin, called Ḳâḍi al-Tanûkhî, who died A.H. 384 (A.D. 994), comp. Rieu ii. p. 752<sup>a</sup>; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 982; J. Aumer, p. 56; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 408; G. Flügel iii. p. 451, etc. Some of the stories are printed in the appendix of Chodzko’s Persian Grammar, new ed., Paris 1883. The present translation was made at the request of ‘Izz-aldîn Ṭâhir bin Zangî, probably about the middle or in the second half of the sixth century of the Hijrah, at any rate before ‘Aufi, who quotes this work in his جوامع الحكايات (see No. 600 sq. in this Cat.). A corroboration of Abû ‘Alî al-Muḥassin’s authorship of the original is found in the list of authorities, given in the preface of the زينة المجالس, where it is styled كتاب فرج بعد الشدّة ابو مُحَسِّن, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 979.</p> <p>Beginning:حمد و ثناى قيّومى كه عجز عقول ذريّات آدم از ادراك الخ.</p> <p>Index, on ff. 6<sup>a</sup>-18<sup>b</sup>; the thirteen bâbs into which the work is commonly divided are found here: Bâb I, on fol. 19<sup>a</sup>; II, on fol. 31<sup>b</sup>; III, on fol. 47<sup>a</sup>; IV, on fol. 76<sup>b</sup>; V, on fol. 101<sup>a</sup>; VI, on fol. 154<sup>b</sup>; VII, on fol. 185<sup>a</sup>; VIII, on fol. 293<sup>a</sup>; IX, on fol. 322<sup>a</sup>; X, on fol. 339<sup>b</sup>; XI, on fol. 350<sup>b</sup>; XII, on fol. 371<sup>b</sup>; XIII, on fol. 407<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Dated by Shaikh Muḥammad Fâḍil at Lâhûr, the 29th of Rajab, A.H. 1027 (A.D. 1618, July 22).</p> <p>No. 1664, ff. 472, ll. 15; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11<sup>5/8</sup>. By 7 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 475] قصّۀ چهار درويش
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 742 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 475 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>742</p> <p>The <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199182">same</a>.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار الخ</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 475, ff. 104, ll. 17-21 written very unequally, partly in Nasta’lîḳ, partly in Shikasta; a little worm-eaten here and there; size, 8¾ in. by 4¾ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3367] طوطى نامه
<ul> <li><strong>Ṭûṭinâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 744 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3367 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>744</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Beginning as usual: مناجات بحضرت رازق الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 23rd of Shawwâl, A.H. 1137 (A.D. 1725, July 5). Occasional corrections on the margin. On the last page there appears the fragment of a letter, written by Mirzâ ‘Alî Ḳulibeg, the son of ‘Alî-marwân-khân, to ‘Umdat-i-Umarâi Rafi’-alshân Nawwâb Muḥammad Amînkhân, (who is probably identical with Muḥammad Amînkhân, son of Mîr Jumlah, who died A.H. 1093=A.D. 1682).</p> <p>No. 3367, olim 8. J. 28, ff. 263, ll. 15; very unequal Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 720] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 738 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 720 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>738</p> <p>Another copy of the same translation.</p> <p>Beginning the same (but without the prefixed praise of God): قدر فرمان ملك معظّم خسرو اعظم الخ. The bâbs which can be traced here (but all without number and heading) are: VI, on fol. 53<sup>a</sup>; IX, on fol. 89<sup>a</sup>; X, on fol. 111<sup>a</sup>; XI, on fol. 53<sup>a</sup>; IX, on fol. 89<sup>a</sup>; X, on fol. 111<sup>a</sup>; XI, on fol. 119<sup>b</sup>; XII, on fol. 132<sup>a</sup>; XIII, on fol. 153<sup>a</sup>; XIV, on fol.223<sup>b</sup>; XV, on fol. 254<sup>a</sup>; XVI, on fol. 315<sup>b</sup>. Fol. 211<sup>b</sup> corresponds to fol. 242<sup>a</sup> in the preceding copy, and 330<sup>a</sup>, first line, to fol. 369<sup>a</sup>, l.5 there Fol. 84<sup>b</sup> is left blank.</p> <p>Dated the 17th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1057 (A.D. 1647, Oct. 16).</p> <p>No. 720, ff. 420, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3496] طوطى نامه
<ul> <li><strong>Ṭûṭinâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 743 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3496 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>743</p> <p>Ṭûṭinâma (طوطى نامه).</p> <p>The older and larger version of the famous ‘Tales of a Parrot,’ by Ḍiyâi Nakhshabî (or Ḍiyâ-aldîn Nakhshabî), containing fifty-two stories, and composed A.H. 730 (A.D. 1330); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 444-448; Rieu ii. p. 753; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 985, and Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. xxi. p. 505 sq.; J. Aumer, pp. 53 and 54; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. i. pp. 355 and 356; Göttinger Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1858, p. 529, etc. Translated into English by M. Gerrans, London, 1792. On the Turkish version see W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 439.</p> <p>Beginning:الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و العاقبة للمتّقين و الصلوات الخ. The usual beginning of most other copies (but with the omission of the first two words, مناجات بحضرت) appears here on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>: رازق النعاب فى عشّه الخ. The book concludes on fol. 242<sup>b</sup>. On fol. 243<sup>a</sup> the date is given, viz. 4th of Jumâdâ-alûlâ, in the first year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1069, A.D. 1659, Jan. 28). On ff. 243<sup>b</sup>-245<sup>a</sup> a ḳaṣîdah by Shâh Ni’mat Walî-allâh (or more commonly Ni’mat-allâh Walî, who died A.H. 834=A.D. 1431, see Rieu ii. p. 634<sup>b</sup>) and some arithmetical tables are added. Many pages slightly injured.</p> <p>No. 3496, olim 8. J. 26, ff, 245, ll. 15-19; Nasta’lîḳ ; ff. 1-6, 33-36, 39-42, 181, 188-245 supplied by various other hands; size, 8<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 5 ½ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2813] قصّۀ چهار درويش
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 740 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2813 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>740</p> <p>Another copy of the <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199182">same</a>.</p> <p>Beginning as usual. Story of the <em>first </em>Dervish, on fol. 5<sup>b</sup>; of the <em>second</em>, on fol. 32<sup>a</sup>; of the <em>Sul</em><em>ṭân</em>, on fol. 58<sup>b</sup>; of the <em>third</em> Dervish, on fol. 100<sup>b</sup>; of the <em>fourth</em>, on fol. 121<sup>a</sup>. The epilogue is not marked by any special heading.</p> <p>No date. Bibliotheca <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a></p> <p>No. 2813, ff. 139, ll. 15; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 7<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2480] قصّۀ چهار درويش
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 739 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2480 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>739</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh (قصّۀ چهار درويش).</p> <p>The Persian version of the story of the Sulṭân of Rûm, Âzâdbakhsh, his son Bakhtyâr, and the four dervishes, popularly ascribed to the greatest Persian Poet of India, <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79065219/">Amîr Khusrau</a> of Dihlî , who died A.H. 725 (A.D. 1325), comp. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766">Bodleian Cat</a>., <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01bodluoft/page/212/mode/2up">No. 443</a>; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91025331/">Rieu</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3333583">ii</a>. p. <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi02brituoft/page/762/mode/2up">762</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Ferdinand_Mehren">A. F. Mehren</a>, p. 32; [<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85149151/">Edward B.] Eastwick</a>, translation of the Bâgh-o-Bahâr, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/163299906">Hertford, 1852</a>, p. vii.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شكر شكن الخ.</p> <p><em>Dâstân I</em>, story of the first Dervish, on fol. 6<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p><em>Dâstân II</em>, story of the second Dervish, on fol. 32<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p><em>Dâstân III</em>, story of the Sulṭân, on fol. 56<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p><em>Dâstân IV</em>, story of the third Dervish (here called درويش چهارم by mistake), on fol. 100<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Dâstân V, story of the fourth Dervish, on fol. 120<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p><em>Epilogue</em> or final story (داستان اخير), on fol. 135<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>The book ends on fol. 141<sup>a</sup>; the remaining two pages and a half are filled with a detailed colophon, in which the transcriber, who does not mention his name, gives a short historical account of the circumstances under which he made this copy, in A.H. 1188, the sixteenth year of Shâh ‘Âlam’s reign (A.D. 1774, 1775).</p> <p>Bibliotheca <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a></p> <p>No. 2480, ff. 142, ll. 18-19, but the greater number of pages are written in diagonal lines; Shikasta; size, 8<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 3<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_20198">link</a> to other manuscript copies of this work.]</li> </ul> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 774] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 736 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 774 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>736</p> <p>Another still more defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy is defective at the end, breaking off on fol. 557<sup>b</sup> with the words:شرمسار گشتند و عذرها .... , corresponding to the preceding copy, fol. 307<sup>a</sup>, l. 11.</p> <p>There is besides a large lacuna in the middle of fol. 105<sup>b</sup>, between ll. 5 and 6, comprising the remaining part of bâb IV, from the twelfth story on to the end, as well as the beginning of bâb V, nearly to the end of the eighth story (corresponding to ff. 55<sup>a</sup>, l. 15-77<sup>a</sup>, l. 8, in the preceding copy).</p> <p>Index, on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>.Bâb I, on fol. 19<sup>b</sup>; II, on fol. 33<sup>b</sup>; III, on fol. 53<sup>b</sup>; IV, on fol. 88<sup>b</sup>; V, missing; VI, on fol. 149<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 186<sup>a</sup>; VIII, on fol. 326<sup>b</sup>; IX, on fol. 361<sup>b</sup>; X, on fol. 385<sup>a</sup>; XI, on fol. 400<sup>a</sup>; XII, on fol. 427<sup>a</sup>; XIII, on fol. 473<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>The copy, which is not dated, is somewhat worm-eaten throughout, but in most places carefully mended. The last leaves are seriously damaged. Instead of فرج there is everywhere written فرح, as in the Munich copy (see J. Aumer, loc. cit.).</p> <p>No. 774, ff. 557, ll. 17; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>7/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1432] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 737 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1432 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>737</p> <p>Tarjuma-i-Kitâb-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</p> <p>An apparently different and, as it seems, enlarged translation, or rather adaptation of the same Arabic original, designated moreover in the following copy as ‘the second half’ (نصف ديگر) only, and made, according to the preface, at the request of the Sulṭân of Sind, Nâṣir-aldin Ḳubâćah(A.H. 607-625=A.D. 1210-1228). It belongs therefore to a somewhat later period than the preceding version. A translator’s name does not appear anywhere. A conjecture on the fly-leaf of the following copy suggests as such Muḥammad ‘Aufî, the author of the جوامع الحكايات and the لباب الالباب (the latter of which is in fact dedicated to Ḳubâćah’s wazîr, ‘Ain-al-mulk Ḥusain al-Ash’arî, see Rieu ii. p. 749).</p> <p>Beginning: حمد و ثناء مكرّمى كه اِنْس را اُنْس بخشيد و جانّ را جانداد و نسيم روان را در چمن تن روان گردانيد و عقل را عاقلۀ قالب ساخت و معرفت ذات همچون خويش بدو حوالت ..... ; here follows a large blank, after which the preface continues in this way: قدر فرمان ملك معظّم خسرو اعظم مالك رقاب امم مولئ ملوك الترك و العجم ناصر الدنيا و الدين غياث الاسلام و المسلمين اعدل الملوك و اكرم السلاطين سلطان ارض الله ناصر عباد الله حافظ بلاد المؤيّد بنصرالله محرّز ممالك الدنيا مظهر العليا ابوالفتح قباچه الخ.</p> <p>As to the subdivision into bâbs, there can be traced the following ones:</p> <p>Bâb VI, on fol. 61<sup>b</sup>: باب ششم در ذكر جماعتى كه در ورطۀ هلاك افتادند و فضل حق تعالى ايشانرا خلاص داد،.</p> <p>Bâbs VII and VIII are not found anywhere.</p> <p>Bâb IX, on fol. 101<sup>a</sup>: باب نهم در ذكر جماعتى كه چنگ (بچنگ) سباع افتادند و پروردگار جلّ جلاله ايشانرا خلاص داد،.</p> <p>Bâb X, on fol. 126<sup>a</sup>:باب دهم در عافيت دادن از امراض و اسقام بامر ملك علّام،</p> <p>Bâb XI, on fol. 135<sup>a</sup>:باب يازدهم در ذكر جماعتى كه از دست شريران فتّان خلاص يافتند،.</p> <p>Bâb XII, on fol. 149<sup>a</sup>:باب دوازدهم در بيان حال جماعتى كه از پیش بلا گريختند و در دام محنت نياويختند،.</p> <p>Bâb XIII, on fol. 174<sup>a</sup>:باب سيزدهم جماعتى كه ببلاى هوا درمانده عاقبت بمقصود رسيده اند،.</p> <p>Bâb XIV, on fol. 256<sup>a</sup>:باب چهاردهم در ذكر جماعتى كه بالفاظ وافى و جوابهاى شافى از خشم ملوك و سلاطين روزگار خلاص يافته اند،.</p> <p>Bâb XV, on fol. 285<sup>a</sup>:باب پانزدهم <sup>1</sup> در ذكر جماعتى كه از حبس و بند خلاص يافته اند و از زحمت خلاص گشته اند،.</p> <p>Bâb XVI, on fol. 352<sup>b</sup>:باب شانزدهم در ذكر جماعتى كه در خواب بشارت نجات شنيده اند و در بيدارى از سر صدق ديده اند،.</p> <p>Bâb XVII, on fol. 392<sup>b</sup>:باب هفدهم در ذكر جماعتى كه بمدد اتّفاق خوب از مكروه خلاص يافته اند و به نيل مقصود ومراد رسيده اند،.</p> <p>Dated the 22nd of Ramadân, in the year تسعه ثمانين و خمسين (? Perhaps misspelt for تسعه مائه و ثمانين و خمس, A.H. 985=A.D. 1577, Dec. 3), in كرخ near Baghdâd. A seal of Muḥammad Farrukhsiyar (died A.H. 1131=A.D. 1719), on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 1432, ff. 459, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 10<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 5<sup>7/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><sup>1</sup> Here wrongly styled یازدهم</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2626] قصّۀ چهار درويش
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 741 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2626 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>741</p> <p>The <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199182">same</a>.</p> <p>Beginning: الحمد لله الذى اشرف الانسان بالكرم و فضّل نفوسهم على جزيل النعم و امتحن قلوبهم ..... امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شيرين الخ.</p> <p>Story of the <em>first</em> Dervish, on fol.6<sup>a</sup>, last line; of the <em>second</em>, on fol. 39<sup>b</sup>; of the <em>third</em>, on fol. 138<sup>a</sup>; of the <em>fourth</em>, on fol. 167<sup>b</sup>. The epilogue is not marked.</p> <p>There seems to be a lacuna after fol. 159.</p> <p>No date. A former owner was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Swinton_(botanist)">G[eorge] Swinton</a>.</p> <p>No. 2626, ff. 190, ll. 12; Shikasta; ff. 1-9 supplied by another hand in Nasta’lîḳ; partly worm-eaten; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1857] ترجمة الفرج بعد الشدّة
<ul> <li><strong>Tarjumat-alfaraj ba’d-alshiddah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 735 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1857 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>735</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy, which is not dated, lacks <em>one</em> leaf in the beginning; the first words on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>,محض صدق و يقينست لقوله الخ, correspond to fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, last line in the following copy (No. 774).Index, on ff. 3<sup>a</sup>-10<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Bâb I, on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>; II, on fol. 19<sup>a</sup>; III, on fol. 26<sup>a</sup>; IV, on fol. 46<sup>a</sup>; V, on fol. 63<sup>a</sup>; VI, on fol. 100<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 119<sup>b</sup>; VIII, on fol. 190<sup>b</sup>; IX, on fol. 209<sup>a</sup>; X, on fol. 220<sup>b</sup>; XI, on fol. 228<sup>a</sup>; XII, on fol. 242<sup>a</sup>; XIII, on fol. 266<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 1857, ff. 309, ll. 24-25; Naskhî; size, 9<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2331] طوطى نامه
<ul> <li><strong>Ṭûṭinâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 752 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2331 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>752</p> <p>Ṭûṭinâma.</p> <p>The later and abridged version of the ‘Tales of a Parrot’ made by Muḥammad Ḳâdirî in the 17th century of the Christian era. It has been edited and translated into English by Gladwin Calcutta, 1800, and London, 1801; German translation by Iken, Stuttgart, 1822; comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1975 and 2028; Rieu ii. p. 754; J. Aumer, p. 54.</p> <p>Beginning: بعد از جنس جنس ثنا و صفت پيدا كنندۀ آسمان و زمین الخ.</p> <p>This abridgment contains, like the British Museum copy, only thirty-five stories. No date. Modern copy. College of Fort William, 1825.</p> <p>On other Persian and Turkish versions (for instance, the one mentioned in Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 172), and on the Hindûstânî version of Ḳâdirî’s abridgment, the ‘Totâ-Kahânî,’ see W. Pertsch, loc. cit. (No. 743 above), and Bodleian Cat., No. 444.</p> <p>No. 2331, ff. 77, ll. 12-13; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 7<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2573] طوطى نامه
<ul> <li><strong>Ṭûṭinâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 747 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2573 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>747</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Excellent copy, which begins in this way: آغاز توحيد ذوالجلال بارى تعالى خالق مخلوقات و رازق موجودات سميعاً مالكاَ قائماَ لا يزال مناجات بحضرت رازق العنايات الخ.</p> <p>Dated by ‘Abd-alkarîm of Ḳandahâr, the 8th of Rajab, A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1788, April 14).</p> <p>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2573, ff. 343, ll. 13; Large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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