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[IO Islamic 1083] Maḥmûdnâma

<ul> <li>Maḥmûdnâma</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1769 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1083 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1769 Another copy of the Maḥmûdnâma. The same collection of ghazals, forming the story of Maḥmûd and Ayâz, as in No. 2 of the preceding copy. Beginning the same. No date. No. 1083, ff. 76-84, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 53/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 1425] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1765 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1425 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   1765 Miscellanies. A large collection of Persian compositions in prose and verse, containing: 1.An incomplete copy of Jâmî’s Lawâ’iḥ (see No. 1357, 15; No. 1358, 2; and Nos. 1368-1373 above), on ff. 1a-13b, defective at the beginning and injured moreover on fol. 1. 2.A story from Muḥammad’s life, on ff. 14a-16b, beginning: اسناد هفت كلام ربّانى چهارده حديث پيغمبر عليه السّلام اسرار تمام الخ. Dated the 28th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 1066 (A.D. 1656, Sept. 17). 3.Grammatical fragments, on ff. 17a-26a, for instance: ; فصل در بيان تنوين باب المداد ; فصل در قلب ; فصل در بيان اخفا ; ; فصل در بيان مخارج حروف; فصل در بيان هاى ضمير و هاى اصلى و هاى سكته الخ ; در بيان ادغامات ; فصل در بيان الف ولام تعريف ; فصل در بيان ساكن ; فصل در بيان قواعد وقف .etc ; 4.قَفِيل نامۀ امام حسين (the scourge-book of Imâm Ḥusain), a lamentation over Ḥusain’s martyrdom, on fol. 26b. 5.Short Persian commentary on Sûras 73 (سورة الْمزَّمِّل) and 74 (سورة المُدَّثِّر), on ff. 27a-35b. 6.A poetical Persian paraphrase of verses and phrases of the Ḳurân, on ff. 36b-52b, 81a-82b, and 89a-90b. 7.Niżâmî’s Makhzan-alasrâr (see No. 972 sq. above), on ff. 53a-75b. 8.Fragment of a Persian commentary on the initial ḳaṣîdah of Khâḳânî’s dîwan (see No. 950 sq. above), beginning: دل من پير تعليم است الخ , on ff. 75b and 76a. 9.Some other ḳaṣîdas of the same Khâḳânî, on ff. 76b-78b. 10.A short mystical mathnawî, entitled entitled: ترغيب القلوب (identical with the مرغوب القلوب in Nos. 1840 and 1841 below), on ff. 79a-80b, in ten faṣls, beginning: بگويم حمد ربّ العالمين را عطا كو كرد بر ما عقل و دين را 11.Extracts from Persian dîwâns, on ff. 88b-83b (the order of leaves is inverted). 12.A ghazal of Shaikh Auḥadî Kirmânî, correctly Auhad-aldîn Kirmânî (died A.H. 697=A.D. 1298) , the spiritual guide of Auḥadî Marâghî, who died A.H. 738 (A.D. 1337, 1338), on fol. 91a. 13.Mathnawî-fragments, on ff. 91b-124b; the larger portion is filled by the مظهر الآثار of Khwâjah Hâshim of Tattah, correctly Mîr Hâshimî of Kirmân, surnamed Shâh Jahângîr, who completed this Ṣûfic mathnawî in Tattah, A.H. 940 (A.D. 1533, 1534), and was slain during his pilgrimage, A.H. 948 (A.D. 1541, 1542), see further down in this Cat. Copied A.H. 1065 (A.D. 1655). 14.Shabistarî’s Gulshan-i-râz (see No. 1761, 2 above), on ff. 125a-136a (fol. 131a does not belong to it). 15.رقعه, a note, on fol. 136b. 16.Various ḳaṣîdas, a short mathnawî-fragment, and a ghazal, on ff. 137a-151b. 17.A mathnawî on the seven days of the week, styled : ساعت نامۀ روزهاء كريم, on ff. 152a-153b, beginning: گر تو خواهى كه گرددت فيروز كار و بار جهان بتو هر روز 18.Various poetical fragments, a معراج نامه (on the ascension of Muḥammad), in form of a ḳaṣîdah, by Muḥtasham, who died A.H. 996 (see Nos. 1447 and 1448 above), a وفات نامۀ حضرت , etc,. on ff. 154b-164b. No. 1415, ff. 164; written by different hands, mostly in careless Nasta’lîḳ, with a great variety in the number of lines; size, 111/4 in. by 51/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 2634] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1770 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2634 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1770 Miscellanies. 1.نقل حكم نامۀ اتاليق شاه زاده, on fol. 1b, beginning: باسم محمّد جعفر و مهدى عليخان و غلام حيدر معلّم زيب نگارش مى بايد الخ. 2.پندنامۀ حيدرى, on fol. 4b, in mathnawî-baits, beginning: پس از حمد رب نعت خير الورا هم از بعد مدح همه اوصيا Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2634, ff. 12, ff. 10 on ff. 1-3; 2 coll., each ll. 9 on ff. 4-12; Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 6 in.

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[IO Islamic 483] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1763 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 483 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1763 A large collection of miscellaneous works in prose and verse. This collection of treatises, loosely bound together, contains: 1.An anonymous treatise in prose, not even specified in the index on the fly-leaf, beginning, on fol. 1a: .... و سپاس مصوّرى كه ارژنگ آسمان را بنقوش انجم پرداخته الخ ; ll. 25; written in careless Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta. 2.Another short anonymous treatise, likewise not marked in the index, beginning, on fol. 9b: آب و رنگ بهارستان سخن ثناى چمن سرائيست كه به نسيم هدايتش طفل الخ ; 12-13; rude handwritings in careless Nasta’lîḳ. 3.دستان, according to the index, by Muḥyî-aldîn Ghulâm, with the takhalluṣ Khushdil, comprising letters, notes, short stories, etc. beginning, on fol. 14a:منّت منّانى كه معنى آشنايان حقيقت انديش امراى عالى و قارش و حمد سلطانى الخ ; ll. 21-24; careless Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta, very much resembling the handwriting of No. 1. 4.نسخۀ خطّ و سواد , a treatise on the style of writing, called Naskhu Ta’lîḳ and their respective character, by Majnûn bin Maḥmûd alrafîḳî (see fol. 38a, l. 6), beginning, on fol. 36b: حمد و سپاس استادى را كه كاتب لوح و قلم بيچون و حافظ نون و القلم الخ. Another copy of the same is noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1369, and Rieu ii. 531b; Majnûn was the takhalluṣ of the great penman and Nasta’lîḳ-writer, Mîr ‘Alî-alkâtib of Mashhad, who lived at the court of ‘Abdallâhkhân Uzbeg in Bukhârâ, and died about A.H. 950 (A.D. 1543, 1544). He wrote besides a رسم الخطّ in verse and a رسالۀ وضع نسخ و تعليق , likewise in mathnawî-baits, both on the same topics, see Bodleian Cat., loc. cit., and No. 1370; Rieu, loc. cit., and p. 532a; see also iii. p. 1089; ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ. 5.مثنوئ ناصر على, the same religious mathnawî, by Nâṣir ‘Alî of Sirhind (who died A.H. 1108), which is found in Nos. 1646-1648 above, beginning, on fol. 50a: الهى ذرّۀ دردى بجان ريز الخ ; usually seventeen baits in a page; clear, but small Nasta’lîḳ. 6.Some scattered pieces in prose, on ff. 71a-75b, written in Shikasta. 7.انشاء امان الله حسينى, a collection of letters by Amân-allâh Ḥusainî, on fol. 76b, beginning: حمد وافر مر خداى را كه ياقوت قوّت ناطقۀ بى بها در عقد انشاى كبرياى او بى بهاست الخ. Amân-allâh Ḥusainî, with the epithets of Khânazâdkhân Fîrûzjang and later on of Khânzamân, was the son of Mahâbatkhân Zamânbeg and greatly distinguished himself under Jahângîr and Shâhjahân; he died A.H. 1044 or 1046 (A.D. 1634-1637), and left besides a dîwân, in which he uses Amânî as takhalluṣ (a copy is described in the Bodleian Cat., No. 1095, see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 330) and a general history, an Arabic and Persian dictionary, styled چهار عنصر دانش (see Rieu ii. pp. 509 and 510); a گنج باداوارد on Indian agriculture (ib. p. 489b), an امّ العلاج on purgatives (ib., p. 794a, No. III), and the same انشا (ib., p. 877a, No. II), of which a considerable portion is found here; the انشا (or رقعات) has been printed in Calcutta, and lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1269, see also W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 129, No. 14, and a complete copy further down in this Cat.; ll. 13, large rude Nasta’lîḳ, sometimes plain Shikasta. It comprises ff. 76b-99b and 119a-139a, dated the 10th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1075 (A.D. 1665, April 26), at Lâhûr, and written by Sayyid ‘Abd-allaṭîf. 8.Two other prose-tracts, one treating of rhetorics and tropical figures, inserted into the two halves of the preceding work, on ff. 100a-118a, very rudely written in Shikasta. 9.مثنوئ محيط اعظم (the great ocean), by ‘Abd-alḳâdir Bîdil (died A.H. 1133), in eight دور , only six of which are found in this incomplete copy, beginning with a preface in prose, on fol. 141b: حمد نشاء آفرينى كه ميخانۀ حقيقت انسانى الخ. The first دور begins on fol. 143b: خوش آندم كه در بزمگاه قدم الخ , see two other copies of the same in Nos. 1682 and 1683 above; 2 columns, each ll. 17; Shikasta. The last leaves extremely damaged. The two pages before it are filled with a رقعۀ محمّد قلى سليم , that is, the prose-story of the ‘Complaint of the mouse and request of the cat.’ noticed above in the complete works of Salim (who died A.H. 1057), No. 1558, 3; it begins: صاحب سليم سلامت فرياد الخ. 10.Scattered pieces in prose and verse. 11.A fragment of Shaikh Muḥammad Murâd’s writtengs, incomplete at the beginning, on fol. 188a. 12.بحر طويل محمّد بيك , beginning, on fol. 216a:ابتدا ميكنم اين نامه بر درد بنام ملك قادر قيّوم الخ. Other treatises with the same title بحر طويل, by Mir Sayyid ‘Alî Mihrî (under Shâh Sulṭân Ḥusain A.H. 1105-1135), and by Muḥammad Ḳâsim bin ‘Abd-alḳâdir Tûnî, are noticed in Rieu ii. p. 796a, No. VII, and p. 833b, No. IV (the latter in praise of Muḥammad and ‘Alî), see also W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 119, No. 13, and 175, No. 3. 13.Another fragment of only two pages (fol. 218), taken from Żuhûrî’s مينا بازار (see above, No. 1509, 6; and Rieu ii. p. 742a, No. IV). All three pieces, 11-13, written by the same hand in Shikasta, ll. 20-21. 14.Mirzâ Muḥammad Taḳî Munshî’s description of Banâras, etc, تعريف بنارس و درياى كنك , beginning, on fol. 219a: ديباچه از ميرزا محمّد تقى حمدى كه طرّاحان بناء اذكار الخ. 15.The same Muḥammad Taḳî’s contest between ‘mirror and target’ (مناظرۀ آئينه و نشانه ), on fol. 237a. 16.Naubâwa (نوباوه), a collection of letters and notes, by Abû-albarakât Munîr of Lâhûr (died A.H. 1054), compiled A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641, 1642), beginning on fol. 240a : اين منتخب از بخت نكو فرجامش الخ. 17.Żuhûrî’s preface to the نورس (see No. 16 in the preceding copy), on fol. 264b, and some other treatises without any heading, the last dated A.H. 1104 (A.D. 1692, 1693). This tract and the preceding ones are all written in the same style of Shikasta, ll. 20-21. 18.انوار المشارق, by Ṭughrâ (see No. 1586, XVIII, above), incomplete at the beginning, on fol. 291a; ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ. 19.رساله در فنّ انشاء, beginning, on fol. 299b: الا اى دوستان نكته پرداز – قدردان سخنهاى سرافراز ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ. 20.Letters, notes, and other fragmentary prose-pieces, on fol. 306a sq. (خطوط و رقعات متفرّقه). 21.خطبۀ ديوان حكيم شفائى , i.e. Mirzâ Jalâl-aldîn Muḥammad Ṭabâṭabâ’î’s preface to the dîwân of Shifâ’î (died A.H. 1037); the same Ṭabâṭabâ’î wrote a preface to Ḳudsî’s dîwân (see above, Nos. 1531-1533 and Nos. 1552-1557), on fol. 312a, and other scattered prose-pieces; ll. 21-25; careless Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta. No. 483, ff. 345; written by many different hands in the most various styles of Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 8½ in. by 53/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 454] Bayâḍ

<ul> <li>Bayâḍ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1767 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 454 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1767 Bayâḍ (بياض ). An album of Persian poetry and prose, containing miscellaneous pieces in a very confused order, many leaves being turned upside down. The principal contents are: 1.A ḳiṭ’ah by ‘Alî Ḥazîn (died A. H. 1180, see Nos. 1712-1714 above), reproaching Kashmîr (قطعه در مذمّت كشمير), on fol. 1a, and other miscellaneous lyric poems. 2.Mîr Najât’s دل كُشتى (a mathnawî on wrestling, composed A.H. 1112= A.D. 1700, 1701; Mîr ‘Abd-al’âl Najât died about A.H. 1126=A.D. 1714, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1162-1165; Rieu ii. p. 821; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 512; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 697, No. 10; lithographed at Lucknow (with commentary), A.H. 1258), on fol. 7b. 3.Mullâ Nau’î’s سوز و گداز (see No. 1485 above), on fol. 18a. 4.A ḳaṣîdah, by Hijrî (see Nos. 1440 and 1441 above), in homage of Nawwâb Âṣaf-aldaulah Bahâdur, on fol. 19b. 5.A tarjî’band, a mukhammas, and a short mathnawî, by Mîr Zain-al’âbidîn (see No. 20 below), on fol. 24b. 6.مناظرۀ سرما و گرما, a dispute between cold and heat, in prose, on fol. 30a. 7.Poems, by Mihrî (died about A.H. 1130), on fol. 35b. 8.Rubâ’iyyât. 9.On the tobacco-pipe (تعريف قليان تنباكو), in prose, on fol. 42b. 10.Several mukhammasât and other miscellaneous poems, on ff. 48b and 63a. 11.Admonitions, by ‘Abdallâh Anṣârî (نصائح عبد الله انصارى), the great mystic Shaikh, who died A.H. 481 (A.D. 1088), see No. 1778 sq. below, in prose, on fol. 68b. 12.A few poems, by Ḥazîn, on fol. 71a. 13.Ghazals, by Shaukat (died A.H. 1107, see Nos. 1628-1633), Mihrî, etc., on fol. 79a. 14.Historical incidents from Nâdirshâh’s time, beginning with A.H. 1149 (A.D. 1736), on fol. 80a. 15.A ḳaṣîdah by Nâṭiḳ (قصيدۀ ناطق ), and other poetry, on fol. 84a. 16.چار اندر چار, a prose-piece by ‘Ubaid Zâkânî (died A.H. 772), on fol. 89a, and another چار در چار, likewise in prose, by Maulânâ Mushfiḳî (of Bukhârâ, died A.H. 994), on fol. 87a. 17.Miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse. 18.قضا و قدر , a mathnawî on predestination, by Mirzâ Ṭâhir, on fol. 117b. 19.A ḳaṣîdah, by Mirzâ Ṭâhir, on fol. 119b. 20.Ḳaṣîdas, by Mîr Zain-al’abidîn, with the takhalluṣ Hijrî, on fol. 133b. 21.قضا و قدر, a second mathnawî of the same title, by Hijrî, on fol. 143b. 22.A short mathnawîقضا و قدر, by Muḥammad Salîm (see No. 1558, 5 above), on fol. 148b. 23.A fourth mathnawî قضا و قدر, by Ḥakîm Ruknâ (see No. 1572 above), on fol. 150b; a fifth mathnawî of the same title, by Amîrbeg Wâlih, is quoted in the Bodleian Cat., col. 768, e. 24.A mathnawî, by Mihrî, entitled سراپاى (description of the human figure, see Bodleian Cat., No. 1168), on fol. 153b. 25.Ḳaṣidas, rubâ’s, and fards, on fol. 164b. It might have been better to page the MS. from the back, as most of the poems are running in that way. Therefore in using this copy the reader must read backward. A short index of the more prominent pieces of this album is found twice, both on ff. 165b and 166b. No. 454, ff. 166; written in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size 9¼ in. by 4½ in.

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[IO Islamic 1319] Persian Poetry

<ul> <li>Persian-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1756 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1319 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1756 An album of Persian poetry, without any value, containing indifferent specimens of Persian ghazals and rubâ’îs, bound together without any order. Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088) is the most conspicuous among the contributors. No. 1319, ff. 121; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9¾ in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 1521] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1762 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1521 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1762 Miscellanies. This MS., written by many different hands, contains a great number of complete and incomplete treatises, detached prose-pieces and fragments of poetry, all confusedly mixed together. The principal portions of this copy are as follows: 1.Extracts from the Shâhnâma (see No. 860 sq. above), beginning: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ. 2.A ساقى نامه, by Ṣidḳî (i.e. Sulṭân Muḥammad Ṣidḳî of Astarâbâd, a panegyrist of Shâh Ṭahmâsp, died A.H. 952), on fol. 10a, beginning: خوشا حال مستى كه منصور وار ميسّر شدش مستئ پايدار 3.Ghazals, by Ṣidḳî and ‘Urfî (died A.H. 999), on fol. 13a. 4.Fragment of an Inshâ, by Ghiyâth-aldîn bin Humâm, commonly called Khwândamîr, that is the famous author of the خلاصة الاخبار, the حبيب السّير, etc. (see Nos. 76-100 above), on fol. 18a, beginning: اى حمد تو ديباچۀ منشور كمال الخ. 5.Short extracts from Niżâmî’s mathnawîs (see Nos. 972-1027 above), ghazals by Ḥâfiż (see Nos. 1246-1274 above), a letter by Naṣîrâ of Hamadân (who was met by Taḳî Auḥadî in Shîrâz, A.H. 1015=A.D. 1606, 1607, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 512, and Rieu iii. p. 1093b) to the Wazîr of Iṣfahân, and various poetical specimens, especially mukhammasât, on fol. 24b. 6.Poems by Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî (see Nos. 1060-1115 above), Maulânâ Dakhlî (came from ‘Irâḳ to India under Akbar), Ḥâfiż, Khâḳânî (see Nos. 950-970 above), etc., on fol. 41a. 7.Extracts from Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî, on fol. 50a. 8.A prose-piece, beginning: مرويست از امام جعفر صادق عليه السّلام كه هر كه سورۀ يسين را سه روز بر زعفران و گلاب نويسد الخ , and ghazals by different Persian poets, on fol. 51b. 9.A poetical description of Kashmîr, by Jân Ḳudsî (see Nos. 1552-1557 above), حاجى محمّد جان قدسى در تعريف كشمير, on fol. 62a, beginning: خوشا كشميرو خاك پاك كشمير الخ. Both from the initial bait and metre it is evident that this poem is different from the usual mathnawî in praise of Kashmîr, see No. 1552, 4. 10.Ghazals, by Maulânâ Ḥashrî, Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim, Ḥakîm Ruknâ (died A.H. 1066), Amîr Khusrau (died A.H. 725), Abû Ṭâlib Kalîm (died A.H. 1062), Maḥsharî (teacher of Mullâ Nażîrî of Nîshâpûr, who died A.H. 1021, see No. 1489 above), Shaikh Bû ‘Alî, Aḳdasî of Mashhad (died A.H. 1003), etc., a فائدۀ ده پند ديگر كه از قول بوزرجمهر حكيم , and few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs, on fol. 64a. 11.A short story (حكايت), a few verses, a prescription جهت قوّة باه, and a محلوق (مخلوق) نامۀ پيغمبر on fol. 67a. 12.Another collection of Persian, poems by Sa’dî (died A.H. 690), Shâh Ḳâsim, Ahlî (of Shirâz, died A.H. 942), Waḥshî (died A.H. 991 or 992), Amîr Khusrau, etc., on fol. 70a. 13.از منشآت ارسطاطاليس حكيم, in verse, beginning: بدان اى خردمند نيكو سير الخ ; followed by ghazals of ‘Urfî, Shâhî (died A.H. 857), etc., and a series of fards, on fol. 73a. 14.Poems by Ḳâsim (probably Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, who died A.H. 837), extracts from Jâmî’s سلسلة الذّهب (composed A.H. 890, see No. 1300, 9 above), ghazals by Kâtibi (died A.H. 838 or 839), Kamâl (Khujandî, died A.H. 803), etc., and a Turkish poem by Âyâzî (آيازى), on fol. 83a. 15.Selections from the لطائف الطّوائف, by ‘Alî bin Ḥusain alwâ’iż (see Nos. 778 and 779 above), arranged in a somewhat puzzling manner. There appears a fifth faṣl on the first page, fol. 88a, در ذكر بعضى از فوائد انفاس امام محمّد باقر ; a sixth on fol. 88b, در ذكر بعضى نكات لطيفۀ امام جعفر صادق ; a seventh on fol. 89a, در ذكر شمّۀ از انفاس متبرّكۀ امام موسى الكاظم ; then follows a second on fol. 89b, در لطائف شعرا نسبت توانگران و بخيلان ; after that a ninth on fol. 90a, در لطائف متفرّقۀ ظرفا ; and an eighth on the same page, در لطائف ظرفا باعراب ; again a seventh occurs on fol. 92b, در بديهه گفتن شعرا با يكديگر ; a third on fol. 93a, در ذكر بعضى از كلمات شريفۀ امام حسين ; again an eighth on fol. 93b, در بديهه كه عرفا و شعرا در وقت وفات گفته ; again a seventh on fol. 94a, در دين دارى و مسلمانئ پادشاهان ; and again a second on fol. 94b, در لطائف و فوائد حكماء متأخّرين. 16.The three prose-treatises by Żuhûrî (see No. 1509 sq. above). Viz. (a) Preface to the نورس , beginning: سرود سرايان الخ, on fol. 96a; (b) Preface to the گلزار ابراهيم, beginning: خرّمى چمن الخ, on fol. 98a; (c) Preface to the خوان خليل, beginning: اى از تو الخ, on fol. 101a. 17.Ghazals, by Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088), Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr, etc., on fol. 104a. 18.Story of Buzurjmihr and Aristotle (!), on fol. 115b, beginning: الحمد لله .... آورده اند كه روزى نوشيروان عادل بخواجه بوزرجمهر حكيم الخ. It is a tract, similar to, if not identical with the ظفرنامۀ بزرجمهر , published by Schefer in his Chrest. Persane i. pp. ١-٦, comp. also Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 43. Dated at Daulatâbâd the 3rd of Muḥarram, A.H. 1175 (A.D. 1761, Aug. 4). 19.Poems by Shâh Ni’mat-allâh Walî (died A.H. 834), on fol. 120a. 20.اسناد فاتحۀ باژگونه , on fol. 121a, beginning: روايت ميكند از امير المؤمنين عثمان الخ. 21.Bread and sweatmeat (نان و حلوا), the well-known mathnawî by Bahâ-aldîn Muḥammad ‘Âmilî (died A.H. 1030), on fol. 122a, beginning: مرحبا اى بلبل دستان حى الخ , see Nos. 1517-1520 above. 22.A story, beginning: درويشى بدر خانۀ بازرگانى رسيد الخ, on fol. 125a. 23.An ethical treatise in forty bâbs, entitled تحفة السّلاطين, on fol. 126a, beginning: الحمد لله ..... امّا بعد بدانكه اين رسالۀ تحفة السّلاطين مبوّب بر چهل بابست و در هر بابى چهار نصيحت باب ا در آنكه چهار چيز پادشاهانرا نگاهدارد اوّل رعايت و محافظت الخ. It is identical with the رسالۀ تحفة الملوك , described in Bodleian Cat., col. 765, No. 45. 24.An astronomical treatise in verse by Khwâjah Naṣîr of Ṭûs (در دانستن آن كه ماه در كدام برج است), on fol. 128a; Naṣîr-aldîn of Ṭûs, the great philosopher and astronomer, died A.H. 672 (A.D. 1273, 1274). 25.A treatise on pearls, jewels, and precious stones, on fol. 129b, beginning : فهرست ابواب در معرفت جواهر و فائدۀ آن باب اوّل در معرفت مرواريد الخ. In twenty one bâbs (not twenty, as the fihrist states). 26.Another treatise, styled: كلمۀ چند در بيان حليۀ , صورت ظاهر انسان و شكل و شمائل و اعضا و جوارح ايشان, on fol. 136a. 27.Metaphysical and psychological tracts in various fuṣûl; the first faṣl is styled: در تمهيد معذرت جهت قصور ادراك و عبادت on fol. 138a. 28.A treatise on the horse, said to have been translated from Aristotle, in thirty bâbs (در معرفت انواع اسپان و هنر آن و الوان و افعال و علّت و دفع علّت ايشان الخ ), on fol. 142b followed by miscellaneous verses, a pros-fragment, and rubâ’îs. 29.Fragment of the first volume of Mirkhwând’s universal history, on fol. 150a. Title: تاريخ روضة الصّفا فى شرف الانبيا, see Nos. 24-75 in this Cat. 30.در خواصّ اسما و آيات, a large treatise on the hidden science and magic influence of special verses and phrases of the Ḳurân, translated from Arabic sources by ‘Abd-al’alî bin Ḥusain, A.H. 926 (A.D. 1520), on fol. 213b, beginning: الحمد لله الّذى انزل القرآن على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيراً الخ. 31.Durr-almajâlis (دٌرّ المجالس), a collection of legends relating to the Patriarchs, Prophets, Muḥammad, ‘Alî, and various Saints, by Saif al-Żafar Naubahârî, in thirty-three chapters, on fol. 293b, beginning : حمدى كه از عنايت الهى بر زبان الخ ; comp. Rieu i. p. 44; J. Aumer, p. 58; G. Flügel iii. p. 444; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. i. p. 359; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 980, etc. 32.A poem by Ḥaidar (i.e. Ḥaidar Kulûć or Kulîćapaz, died A.H. 959), and various prose-fragments, among which an incomplete treatise on similar topics as No. 30, styled شرح ردّ سحر صحيح و مجرّب , and beginning on fol. 357b: روايت است كه روزى شخص پيش خواجه رشيد رحمة الله عليه آمد الخ. The right order of the leaves of this treatise is: fol. 357b, 351a-355b. On the fly-leaves in the beginning of the MS. there are also some scattered prose-fragments. No. 1521, ff. 357; written in many different styles of Nasta’lîḳ; size, 123/8 in. by 71 in.

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[IO Islamic 538] اشعار متفرّقه

<ul> <li>Ash’âr-i-Mutafarriḳah</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1754 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 538 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1754 Ash’âr-i-mutafarriḳah (اشعار متفرّقه). A rough sketch of an anthology of Persian lyric poetry, written by different hands, without any value. Even some Rekhta poetry occurs sometimes. A series of rubâ’îs by ׳Umar Khayyâm (died A.H. 517) begins on fol. 6b. No. 538, ff. 87, varying much in the number of columns as well as of lines; written by different hands in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; many pages left blank, or only partly filled; size, 81/8 in. by 53/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 1900] مجموعۀ اشعار

<ul> <li>Poem-Collection</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1753 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1900 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1753 A short, but very curious collection of Ṣûfic poetry, beginning with a series of short poems in honour of God, Muḥammad, the Tâbi’în, etc., arranged in the following manner: each part or hymn opens with a certain number of short mathnawîs (each comprising two baits), arranged alphabetically according to the end-rhyme; after that follows a مثنوئ مطلق which falls out of the alphabetical order (also comprising two baits), and then an equal number of strophes, each of which contains just as many hemistichs as there are mathnawîs belonging to that particular hymn; for instance, the first hymn on the unity of God consists of three mathnawîs, rhyming in ا, ب, and ت respectively, of an intermediate مثنوى مطلق, and three muthallathât; the second hymn on the Prophet contains four mathnawîs, rhyming in ث,ج,ح, and خ, and of four murabba’ât, separated from the mathnawîs again by the مثنوى مطلق, as is the case in all the following hymns; the third hymn has five mathnawîs, rhyming in د,ذ,ر,ز, and س, and five mukhammasât; the fourth has six mathnawîs, rhyming in ش,ص,ض,ط,ظ and ع, and six musaddasât; the fifth has seven mathnawîs, rhyming in غ,ف,ق,ك,ل,م, and ن, and seven musabba’ât; the sixth (and last) has three mathnawîs, rhyming in و, ه, and ى, but no corresponding strophes. This series of hymns is followed by a variety of other poems on spiritual and pantheistic matters, ghazals, mathnawîs, rubâ’îs, ḳiṭ’as, and one ḳaṣidah. Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... اسم الله ذات رحمانرا – اسم اعظم صفات سبحانرا المثنويّات المُقيّد فى الالف و الباى و التاى فى التّوحيد بالحمد و الثّناء و المناجات العرفانى الخ. No date. Collated. No. 1900, ff. 17, coll., each ll. 19; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 97/8 in. by 51/2 in.

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[IO Islamic 281] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1764 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 281 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1764 Poetical miscellanies and fragments. A collection of lyrical and epical poems, mostly fragmentary, bound together with a defective copy of a prose-story, for the greater part in a very precarious state. Contents: 1.Ghazals, by Shâhî (died A.H. 857), Ḥâfiż, Âṣafî (died A.H. 923), Jâmî, etc. forming a sort of anthology, on ff. 1b-50a, usually four baits in a page. 2.Fragment of the dîwân of Ṣâ’ib, containing ghazals, in alphabetical order, on ff. 51b-66b, beginning: اگر نه مدّ بسم الله الخ, and breaking off already in the first rhyme-letter ا (comp. above, No. 1606, 3 etc.); 2 columns, each ll. 15. 3.Fragment, defective both at the beginning and end, of an allegorical mathnawî, حسن و دل (beauty and heart, see, for instance, fol. 71a), by a poet with the takhalluṣ Ṣairafî (i.e. Maulânâ Ṣalâḥ-aldîn of Sâwa, who came to India Akbar and still flourished under Jahângîr, to whom this poem is dedicated, see fol. 69b), on ff. 67a-111b; 2 columns, each ll. 15. 4.A large portion of the mystical mathnawî زاد المسافرين (provision for travellers), by the great Ṣûfic poet and writer Mîr Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî (i.e. Ḥusain bin ‘Âlim bin Abî-alḥasan alḥusainî), who died after A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320), see complete copies of the same in Nos. 1832-1834 below. It begins, on fol. 112b:اى برتر از آن همه كه گفتند الخ , and breaks off on fol. 151b. 5.A fragment, defective both at beginning and end, of the كارستان (see fol. 156a) or كارنامه , an Indian story of the exploits and adventures of Wâlâ Akhtar, the prince of Hurmuz, composed A.H. 1050 (A.D. 1640, 1641) in Jaunpûr by the same Abû-albarakât Munîr of Lâhûr (who has been mentioned in No. 16 of the preceding copy), and dedicated to the emperor Shâhjahân, on ff. 152a-196b, ll. 15. No. 281, ff. 196, written by different hands in different styles of Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b; size, 7¼ in. by 4 in.

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[IO Islamic 902] Persian Poetry

<ul> <li>Persian-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1755 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 902 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1755 Another rough album of Persian poetry, beginning with an incomplete copy of the famous little mathnawî سوز و گداز by Nau’î (died A.H. 1019; see above, No. 1485), the first hemistich of which runs here thus: الهى سينه ام را نالگى ده الخ. The remaining portion of this MS. contains extracts from the dîwâns of well-known lyrical poets, Âhî (died A.H. 927), Kalîm (Abû Ṭâlib, died A.H. 1062), Nâṣir ‘Alî (died A.H. 1108), Fuḍûlî (of Baghdâd, died A.H. 970), Mîr Siyâdat (Jalâl-aldîn, flourished about A.H. 1081), Jalâl Asîr (died A.H. 1049), Mullâ Munîr of Lâhûr (died A.H. 1054), etc. No. 902, ff. 64, 3 or 2 coll. in a page; written by different hands in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; many leaves left blank, others partly filled; injured and effaced in many places; illuminated frontispiece, partly damaged; size, 93/8 in. by 51/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2832] Poems

<ul> <li>Poems</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1760 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2832 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1760 Miscellanies. 1.On ff. 205-234a: a short mathnawi in Dakhnî verses, entitled قصّۀ ابو شحمه, and beginning: راهى ميرى دلمين يون گيان دى الخ. Copied at Patna. 2.On ff. 234b-237b: a few ḳaṣîdas and ḳiṭ’as, partly in Persian, partly in Hindûstânî; the first is styled مناجات غوث الاعظم (in honour of ‘Abd-alḳâdir Gîlânî, who died A.H. 561=A.D. 1166), the second مدح (in honour of Muḥammad), both in Persian; the third is in Hindûstânî, without any heading; the fourth, in honour of the prophet (رسول الله ), again in Persian; the fifth, again in honour of ‘Abd-alḳâdir, and the sixth, headed مدح حضرت صلعم, are both in Hindûstânî. No. 2832, ff. 205-237, the first part in 2 coll., each ll. 11; the second in diagonal lines; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6½ in. by 4¼ in.

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[IO Islamic 58] اشعار

<ul> <li>Poems</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1752 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 58 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1752 Poems by prince Jahândârshâh. A collection of Persian and Hindûstânî poems, ghazals, rubâ’îs, and mathnawî-baits, by the same prince Jahândârshâh, entitled on the fly-leaf: بياض عنايتى مرشد زاده. This title seems to be written by mere mistake on the fly-leaf of this MS., as it properly belongs to the preceding album, whereas the title given to that collection, ‘Poems by the prince Jahândârshâh,’ refers to this copy. That this collection contains the prince’s own poetry, is proved by the takhalluṣ Jahândâr, which very often occurs. Contents: Persian lyrical poems, on fol. 1b, beginning: پيش من تحفۀ نوكار كهن هر دو يكيست كوه و صحرا و كف دشت و چمن هر دو يكيست Hindûstânî lyrical poems, on fol. 9b, beginning: خود بخود چو يار همسى آج سكچانى لكا الخ A Hindûstânî mathnawî, on fol. 62a, headed: مثنوئ , شهرزادۀ عالم ميرزا جوان بخت جهاندار شاه دام اقباله’ and beginning: الهى ركهه مچهى آوارۀ عشق – ميرى دل كوكر آتشپارۀ عشق This mathnawî concludes on fol. 71a and is followed on ff. 73a-86a by another Hindûstânî mathnawî, or rather a collection of mathnawî-baits, by the emperor Shâh ‘Âlam, as the following heading seems to imply: ارشاد حضور پر نور شاه عالم پادشاه غازى خلّد الله ملكه و سلطانه’. Copied by Muḥammad ‘Alî of Mashhad. No. 58, ff. 86, 8 baits on every page; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 47/8 in.; in outward appearance both MSS., Nos. 57 and 58, are quite alike.

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[IO Islamic 1488] Persian and Rekhta Poetry

<ul> <li>Poetry-Album</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1758 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1488 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Miscellaneous Poetry in Persian, Hindûstânî, Dakhnî, and Turkish, and Extracts in Verse and Prose (Nos. 1758-1772) 1758 An album of Persian and Rekhta poetry, containing different collections in alphabetical arrangement, the proper order of the leaves being this: ff. 1-31, 88-150, 32-87, 151-229. First series, on ff. 1b-31 and 88-105: Persian ghazals and mukhammasât by various poets, beginning, on fol. 1b: الحمد لذاته العلى الاعلى – النّعت لاسماء صفات الحُسْنى Second series, on ff. 106b-150b and 32a-87b: Persian rubâ’îs, arranged alphabetically, without any author’s name, beginning, on fol. 106b: ياران چو نصير نيستم هرزه درا امّا حرفى حقّى بگويم بشما Third series, on ff. 151b-194b: Rekhta ḳaṣidas, ghazals, mukhammasât, etc. Fourth series, on ff. 195a-229: Persian miscellaneous poems, rubâ’îs by Ḥishmat (Muḥammad ‘Alî, pupil of ‘Abd-alghanîbeg Ḳabûl, who died A.H. 1139 was over thirty years in A.H. 1136), Bîdil (died A.H. 1133), etc.; fards, ḳiṭ’as, ta’rîkhât, ghazals, mathnawî-baits, etc., on fol. 203b sq., by Nâṣir bin Khusrau (died A.H. 481); Ḳizilbashkhân Ummîd (died A.H. 1159), Shaikh Ḥazîn (died A.H. 1180), Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088), Ḥâfiż (died A.H. 791), Mukhliṣ Kâshî (see No. 1687 above), Fiṭrat (died A.H. 1106), Shaikh Niżâmî, Luṭf ‘Alîbeg Sâmî, and other minor poets. Many pages left blank for later insertion of poems in their proper alphabetical place. No date. No. 1488, ff. 229, ll. 9-12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 73/8 in. by 41/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 900] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1766 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 900 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1766 Scattered selections from Persian works in verse and prose, put together without any order. The copy begins with extracts from the poems of Shaikh ‘Aṭṭâr (died A.H. 627, see Nos. 1031-1054 above), Mirzâ Ḳâsim, Maulânâ ‘Abdî (an ‘Abdî of Bâkû died A.H. 965; an ‘Abdî of Nîshâpûr was the uncle of Shâh Maḥmûd Zarîn-ḳalam, a third was ‘Abdî of Abarḳûh under Shâh Ṭahmâsp, a fourth ‘Abdî of Gunâbâd, a protégé of prince Ibrâhîm Mirzâ Jâhî Ṣafawî and author of a mathnawî گوهر شاهوار, a fifth lived in India under Shâhjahân, about A.H. 1051), etc.; Ḥakîm Jauharî (probably Jauharî Zargar, the contemporary of Athîr-aldîn Akhsîkatî, who died A.H. 608, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1481, col. 490 above), is found on fol. 9a; then follow again ‘Aṭṭâr, Ḥâfiż, etc.; several ḳaṣîdas and rubâ’is; extracts from Jâmî, Shaikh Rûzbahân Ṣûfî (on fol. 30a, see No. 1747, fifth Shaikh ab infra), Shâh Shujâ’, Mirzâ Raḍî Artîmânî (see No. 1522 above), Shaikh Auḥadî (died A.H. 738), Ḳulî Salîm (died A.H. 1057, see No. 1558 above), Abû Turâbbeg (under Shâh ‘Abbâs I, see No. 1528 above), Ḥijâbî, Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim (on fol. 33b), Thanâ’î (died A.H. 996), Ṣâ’ib, Khâḳânî, a مناجات by Amîr Khusran (died A.H. 725, on fol. 36b), etc.; a ساقينامه, by Aḳdasî (of Mashhad, died A.H. 1003, on fol. 41b), another by Ḥakîm Partawî (of Shîrâz, about A.H. 1000, on fol. 43a), a third by Mashrab (on fol. 48a); poems by Asadî of Ṭûs (died between A.H. 421 and 432, see No. 893 above, on fol. 54b), etc., by Niżâm of Astrâbâd (died A.H. 921, on fol. 61b), etc., by Salmân (of Sâwa, died A.H. 778 or 779, see Nos. 1237-1243 above, on fol. 64b); a mathnawî on Muḥammad’s ascension to heaven, در معراج (on fol. 76b sq.); short pieces in prose (on fol. 98b), intermixed with poetry, by Auḥadî, etc.; a fourth ساقينامه, by Ḥakîm ‘Aṭâi (on fol. 104a); prose-extracts from a book, entitled اخلاق رسول (on fol. 106a); poems by Niżâmî (on fol. 109b); prose-stories, etc. (on fol. 110a sq.); در ذكر فضيل عياض (on fol. 123b sq., see on Fuḍail bin ‘Iyâḍ the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 96, col. 284 in this Cat.); در فضيلت و آداب نماز شب (on fol. 135b sq.); extracts from a book on traditions, and other scattered prose-pieces (on fol. 139a sq.). No. 900, ff. 176; written in Nasta’lîḳ by different hands; great variety in the number of columns and lines in a page; size, 97/8 in. by 57/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 57] مجموعۀ اشعار

<ul> <li>Poem-Collection</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1751 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 57 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1751 A collection of short extracts, chiefly rubâ’îs and fards, from the poems of old and modern Persian authors, collected in form of an album, as it seems, by prince Jahândârshâh, or with his full title, Mirzâ Juwânbakht Jahândârshâh, the eldest son of Shâh ‘Âlam, who died in Banâras the 24th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1788, May 30); see a sketch of his life in Francklin’s History of Shah Aulum, pp. 154-162, and comp. Rieu iii. pp. 946 and 1084. On the fly-leaf is written عنايتى مرشد زاده , ‘Poems by the prince Jahândârshâh,’ but that these are not the prince’s own verses, but extracts, made by him from others, we see from the headings of the single piece, beginning with extracts from Ghazâlî of Mashhad (died A.H. 980) thus: چرخ فانوس خيال و عالمى حيران درو مردمان چون صورت فانوس سر گردان درو From fol. 17 down to the end the headings are wanting, but sometimes a takhalluṣ occurs, for instance Ṣa’dî and others, and proves these poems likewise to be from the dîwâns of other poets. Copied in the month Ramaḍân, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, July-August), by Ḥâfiż Muḥammad Wâsi’ Khân. No. 57, ff. 97, 2 coll., each containing five baits; clear Nasta’liḳ; size, 9 in. by 47/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 1085] نقل بياض

<ul> <li>Naḳl-i-bayâḍ</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1757 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1085 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1757 Naḳl-i-bayâḍ (نقل بياض). Another kind of album with selections from Persian poets, beginning: رفعت زدرت سپهر آموخته است حاشا كه ارادۀ جفا با تو كنيم There are many lacunas between the single leaves. The principal portion breaks off on fol. 30b. Ff. 31a-39a, also filled with poetical quotations, are of much smaller size and written by another hand, apparently bound together with the first part by mere chance. No. 1085, ff. 39, 2 coll. on ff. 1-30, varying much in the number of lines; 3 and 4 columns (partly in diagonal lines) on ff. 31-39; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in. on ff. 1-30; 7 in. by 4½ in. on ff. 31-39.

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[IO Islamic 1050] Poems

<ul> <li>Poems</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1759 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1050 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1759 Short mathnawîs in Hindûstânî, Dakhnî, and Persian. 1.Bahlûl-i-Ṣâdiḳ (بهلول صادق), in Rekhta verses, on fol. 1b, beginning: سنا يك روز مين صاحب زبان سين الخ. 2.Wafâtnâma-i-Paighambar (وفات نامۀ پيغمبر), ‘the story of the prophet’s death,’ in Dakhunî verses, on fol. 8b, beginning: يو دنياتو فانى عجب باغ هى الخ. 3.’Îsâ u Kallah (عيسى و كلّه), in Persian verses, on fol. 22b, beginning: ناگهان روزى زتقدير خدا الخ. Attached to this mathnawî and written by the same hand is a Persian story in prose, the story of Sulṭân Sanjar (died A.H. 552=A.D. 1157), on ff. 25b-27, beginning: حكايت سلطان سنجر ماضى السّلطان الاعظم و الخاقان المعظّم سلطان سنجر الماضى ابن سلطان ملكشاه رحمة الله عليه الخ. No. 1050, ff. 27, ll. 10 (on ff. 1-7) in Shikasta; ll. 13 (on ff. 8-21) in Nasta’lîḳ; ll. 15 (on ff. 22-27), also in Nasta’lîḳ, by another hand; size, 75/8 in. by 43/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2559] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1761 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2559 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1761 Miscellaneous Persian and Turkish poetry. This MS., the leaves of which are misplaced to an almost bewildering extent, contains: 1.On ff. 1-8, 95, 9-17, 23-52, 93, 94, 96-143: A Turkish adaptation and amplification of Shabistarî’s Gulshan-i-râz, by a Turkish poet Shîrazî (كتاب گلشن راز ترجمۀ شيرازى), incomplete at the end with probable lacunas between the various fragmentary pieces, beginning: نفس اوردى نفس رحمان نسيمى معطّر اولِد جان و دل حريمى 2.On ff. 144-173 and 19-22 : the Persian original of the Gulshan-i-râz, with the omission of the first thirteen verses, beginning, on fol. 144a : جهان و خلق امر اينجا يكى شد الخ, corresponding to ver. 14 in Whinfield’s edition, London, Trübner, 1880. On the Gulshan-i-râz (composed A.H. 717=A.D. 1317), by Maḥmûd Shabistarî (died A.H. 720=A.D. 1320), see Bodleian Cat., No. 1260, and further down under ‘Ṣûfism’ in this Cat. 3.On ff. 18 and 53-86b: a large fragment (end of the second daftar) of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr Jawâhir-aldhât (جواهر الذّات), comp. fol. 86a, l. 9: كنون عطّار گفتى جوهرى ذات الخ ; see No. 1031, 17; No. 1033, 2; No. 1035, 2; and Nos. 1046 and 1047 above. 4.Ff. 86b and 87a: a few Persian ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs. 5.Ff. 87b -92b and 174a-183a: Nâṣir bin Khusrau’s Rûshanâ’înâma (روشنائى نامه), beginning: بنامى (! sic) كردگارى (!) پاك داور كه هست از فهم و فكر و عقل برتر Comp. No. 904 above. 6.Ff. 183b-184b: a Turkish tarkibband. The whole copy is written by a scribe who was apparently ignorant of Persian, as the spelling in the few lines quoted above proves. The simple Iḍâfat he expresses, for instance, almost always by a full ى . Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2559, ff. 184, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Turkish hand; size, 81/4 in. by 6 in.

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[IO Islamic 505] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1768 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 505 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   1768 Miscellanious. This MS., written like some of the preceding ones, by a very rude and inexperienced hand, contains: 1.A short collection of letters by Ni’mat-allâh, a Jew entitled انشاء نعمت , on fol. 1b, beginning : الحمد لله ..... بندۀ درگاه ..... اشتباه نعمت الله بنى اسرائيل الخ 2.Maḥmûdnâma (محمود نامه), a collection of ghazals (from five to seven baits), by an unknown author, arranged in the form of a dîwân, so that for every rhyme-letter there appears one ghazal, and forming a complete poem, treating of the well-known story of Maḥmûd and Ayâz (the best known poetical version of which is the mathnawî of the same title, by Zulâlî. See No. 1494, 2 above); in the concluding verse of each stanza ‘Maḥmûd,’ or ‘Maḥmûd u Ayâz’ appears as a kind of takhalluṣ. Beginning, on fol. 12a: اى داغ بر, دل از غم خال تو لاله را الخ. 3.Sa’dî’s alleged پندنامه (see No. 1127, 7 above), beginning, on fol. 28a: كريما ببخشاى الخ. 4.A Rekhta mathnawî, on fol. 39a, At the end of No. 2 is written: اين كتاب در سركار تپوّ سلطان است. No. 505, ff. 48. 2 coll., each ll. 9; rude Shikasta; also, 7¾ in. by 5½ in.

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