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[IO Islamic 3259] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 865 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 3259  here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 865 The same. The Bâisungharî preface, on fol. 1a. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 10b. It is divided into four books, which agree in their contents entirely with those in the preceding copy, except that Books II and III (beginning on fol. 144b) are not separated here. Book IV begins on fol. 338b. Small blanks on many pages, apparently left for the insertion of headings or pictures. Book I (جلد اوّل) is dated A.H. 1111, the 16th of Ṣafar (called here the 44th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign)=A.D. 1699, August 13; Book IV, the 8th of Dhû-alḥijjah, in the same year=A.D. 1700, May 27, by Muḥammad Ḥiṣârî. The first two leaves are supplied by another hand, perhaps by Warren Hastings, whose name appears at the top of the preface. No. 3259, olim 11. J. 5, ff. 427, 4 coll. Each ll. 25, and a fifth on the margin, ll. 40; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/4 in. by 71/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3340] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 864 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 3340 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 864 The same. The Bâisungharî preface begins here as in the preceding copy, and is concluded by a short chronological index and list of kings. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 12b. It is divided into four books; Book I ends with Rustam’s return from Turkistân and Afrâsiyâb’s flight; Book II, beginning on fol. 200b, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, beginning on fol. 315b, goes down to the accession of Nûshirwân; and Book IV, beginning on fol. 461b, comprises the rest. Dated by Majd-aldîn bin Ibrâhîm Ḥâfiż, A.H. 1012, the 29th of Muḥarram (A.D. 1603, July 9). No. 3340, olim 11. J. 7, ff. 586, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 12b; adorned headings on ff. 200b and 315b. Small pictures on ff. 15a, 15b, 17a, 19a, 24b, 42a, 48b, 50a, 55a, 65b, 73b, 77b, 92b, 106b, 120b, 134a, 149a, 156a, 158b, 164a, 180b, 190a, 198b, 200a, 212b, 214a, 243b, 254b, 267b, 279a, 280b, 296b, 297a, 315b, 325b, 332a, 332b, 333b, 334b, 337a, 353a, 355a, 358b, 370a, 371a, 377a, 385b, 388b, 393a, 395b, 399b, 410a, 418b, 420b, 422a, 424a, 425b, 429a, 435a, 439b, 460b, 489a, 494b, 516a, 534b, 552b, 561a, 563b, 572b, 576b, 583a, and 585b ; size, 85/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 966] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 876 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 966 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 876 The same. A beautiful copy, without any subdivision, dated A.H. 1012, 1st of Ramaḍân (A.D. 1604, February 2). No. 966, ff. 523, 4 coll., each ll. 25; clear ll. 25; clear Nasta’lîḳ; splendid frontispieces and other illuminations on ff. 1b and 2a; pictures on ff. 4b, 8b, 14b, 18a, 26a, 33b, 44a, 45a, 54b, 56a, 57a, 62a, 63a, 64b, 66a, 68b, 71a, 74a, 77b, 79a, 88a, 97a, 110a, 113b, 127b, 145a, 147a, 157b, 169b, 171b, 177b, 180a, 186b, 189a, 197b, 200b, 212b, 216a, 229a, 232b, 243b, 254a, 269a, 275a, 277a, 279a, 297a, 307a, 314b, 318b, 323b, 335a, 358a, 360b, 371b, 378b, 389a, 403b, 408a, 428b, 453b, 475a, and 505a; size, 141/2 in. by 91/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2564] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 877 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 2564 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 877 The same. Another good copy of the Shâhnâma, with excellent and numerous marginal notes and various readings, which give quite an exceptional value to it. It is divided into two daftars, the second of which begins, on fol. 271b, after Bahrâm’s death, with the struggle between Rustam and Kâmûs: بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه comp. No. 860 above, The first daftar was finished A.H. 1053, last of Muḥarram (A.D. 1643, April 20); the second, the 25th of Rabî’-alâkhar in the same year (A.D. 1643, July 13). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2564, ff. 434, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 271b; fol. 136 partly effaced; size, 11½ in. by 7½ in.

[IO Islamic 2361] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 885 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 2361 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 885 The same. Beginning as usual. The title منتخب شاهنامه, appears on fol.2a, l. 9, but at the top of fol. 1a and in the colophon the book is designated as لبّ لباب منتخب شاهنامه or simply لبّ لباب. The extracts end on fol. 267b, followed by the usual additions. Dated by Muṭi’-allâh Ćishtî alrashîdi aljaunpûri, A.H. 1170, 9th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1757, June 27). From the library of Sir Charles Wilkins. No. 2361, ff. 274, ll. 15; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; worm-eaten throughout; size, 77/8 in. by 47/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2118] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 860 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 2118 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> B. POETRY. I.EPIC, LYRIC, AND DIDACTIC POETRY. Poets who died between A.H. 400 and 500. 1.Firdausî and Imitators (Nos. 860-901). a.Copies of the Shâhnâma with the older preface. 860 Shâhnâma (شاهنامه). Firdausî’s great epic poem, ‘the book of kings,’ in four books, preceded by the older preface, anterior to the so-called Bâisungharî recension, and designated by Mohl (i. p. xv) as prėface No. II;’ see Rieu ii. p. 534a; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 732 sq.; Bodleian Cat., No. 497; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 169; J. Aumer, p. 6 (where it is wrongly ascribed to Bâisunghar), etc. This preface has been translated by M. de Wallenbourg in his ‘Notice sur le Shahnamė,’ Vienna, 1810, and begins here, on fol. 1b: سپاس و آفرين مر خدايرا كه آن جهان و اين جهان الخ. First book (جلد اوّل) of the poem, on fol. 6b, beginning: بنام خداوند جان و خرد – كزين برتر انديشه بر نگذرد And going down to Bahrâm’s death. Second book (جلد دويم), on fol. 151b, beginning: بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه – كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه And concluding with Isfandiyâr’s message of victory to his father Gushtâsp. Third book (جلد سوم), on fol. 290b, beginning: خداوند پيروزى و فرّهى – خداوند ديهم و شاهنشهى And ending with accession of Nûshirwân. Fourth book (جلد چهارم), on fol. 407b, beginning exactly as the second book and comprising the rest of the poem. Firdausî (Abû-alḳâsim Ḥasan or Manṣûr) was born about A.H. 321 or 322 (A.D. 933 or 934) in Shâdâb, near Ṭûs, completed the Shâhnâma, according to the usual statement, A.H. 400 (A.D. 1009, 1010), according to a rare epilogue, found only in one copy of the British Museum (Rieu. ii. p. 535a) and in No. 878 below, already A.H. 389 (A.D. 999), and according to some verses in the same copy of the British Museum, even as early as A.H. 384 (A.D. 994), and died A.H. 411 (A.D. 1020; other dates of his death are A.H. 416 =A.D. 1025, and A.H. 421=A.D. 1030); comp. on the poet’s biography and special incidents of his life, besides the Catalogues mentioned above, W. Pertsch, p. 68; G. Flügel i. p. 492 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 405 sq.; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, pp. 54-99; Ethé, Firdûsî als Lyriker, in Sitzungsberichte der bayr. Academic, philos-philol. Classe, 1872, pp. 275-304, and 1873, pp. 623-653; ‘A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Ferdusi,’ London, 1876; and Ethé, Die höfische und romantische Poesie der Perser, Hamburg, 1887, p. 25 sq. Best text editions by Turner Macan, in 4 vols., Calcutta, 1829 (of the earlier Calcutta edition of 1811, by Lumsden , only one volume has appeared), reproduced in the lithographed eastern texts of Bombay, 1849 and 1856, Cawnpore, 1874, Ṭahrân, A.H. 1245 and 1267, etc.; J. Mohl (with a complete prose translation in French), Paris, 1838-1878; and J.A. Vullers, Leyden, 1877-1884. Parts of the poem have been published in J. Atkinson’s Soohrab, a poem (Persian and English), Calcutta, 1814; Vullers, Chrestomathia Shahnamiana. Bonn, 1833; H.S. Jarrett, Selections from the Shah Namah, Calcutta, 1880; I. Pizzi, Antologia Firdusiana, second edition, Leipzig, 1891; in various Persian Chrestomathies, for instance, Spiegel (Leipzig, 1846), Pizzi (Manuale della lingua Persiana, Leipzig, 1883, and Chrestomathie Persane, Turin, 1889), and others, and in Salemann und Shukovski, Persische Grammatik, Berlin, 1889; compare also Zenker, No. 526 sq., and ii. 489 sq. Chief translations by Champion (the first eight books), 1788; St. Weston, Episodes from the Shah Nameh, 1815; J. Görres, Das Heldenbuch von Iran, 2 vols., Berlin, 1820; Starkenfels, Key-Kawns in Masenderan, Vienna, 1841; Fr. V. Schack, Heldensagen, third edition, 3 vols., Stuttgart, 1877; J. Mohl, Le livre des rois, traduit et commenté, publié par Mme. Mohl, Paris, 1876-1878; H. Zimmern, The Epic of Kings, London, 1882; S. Robinson, Persian Poetry for English Readers, 1883 (pp. 5-102); I. Pizzi, ll libro dei re, poema epico, in 8 vols., Turin, 1886-1888 (the only complete translation in verse that exists of Firdausî’s epopee in any European language, except the Turkish version of Sharîf, see Rieu, p. 152 sq.); Fr. Rϋckert, Firdosi’s Königshûch, aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von E. A. Bayer, Sage i-xiii, Berlin, 1890; and ‘Rostam und Suhrab’ im Nibelungenmass, ein Fragment mitgeteilt von E. Bayer in ‘Zeitschrift fϋr vergl. Litteraturgeschichte, etc.,’ Berlin, 1891, pp. 322-342. On the question of the origin of certain parts of the poem, see Nöldeke’s ‘Persische Studien II,’ Sitzungsberichte der kais. Acad. Der Wissenschaften in Wien, 1892, vol. 126. The present copy was transcribed by Muḥammad Ḥâfiż Ćishtî. Book I is dated A.H. 1007, first of Ramaḍân (A.D. 1599, March 28); Book II, A.H. 1007, the 18th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1599, May 14); Book III has no date; book IV is dated A.H. 1008, the 16th of Rajab (A.D. 1600, Febr. 1). Fol. 421 (٤٢٤ according to the Arabic paging) is left blank. Many small blanks besides. No. 2118, ff. 522, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small, but very neat and clear Nasta’lîḳ; splendid illuminations on the first two pages of each book ; size, 153/8 in. by 101/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2486] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 899 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 2486 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 899 A short fragment of the same. Part of the episode of Gulandâm’s deliverance, from the Khâwarnâma, agreeing in substance, but not in wording, with fol. 118 sq. in No. 2557 (896 in this Cat.). It contains only six leaves and is incomplete at the end. Heading: ابن حسام گويد، رفتن فتّاح بطلب گل اندام و خلاص نمودن و يافتن اورا در آن كوه و مژده دادن ابو المعجن را،. Beginning: چو خورشيد بنهفت و بنمود ماه الخ. Last verse: بپرسیدش از گردش روزگار – سروشش شنيد حيدر نامدار Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2486, ff. 195-200, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.

[IO Islamic 658] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 898 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 658 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 898 A defective copy of the same. Beginning as usual. No date. This copy is in a very bad state, worm-eaten and damaged in many places; there are besides several lacunas and misplaced leaves, for instance, the proper order of ff. 183-202 is: 183, 196, 197, 195, 201, 194, 200, 198, 199, 202; the intervening leaves 184-193 are not quite consecutive, 185-192 and 184 and 193 respectively belong together, but between both these series there are lacunas. No. 658, ff. 536, 2 coll., ll. 16-23; written very unequally by different hands in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 41/2 in.

[IO Islamic 3443] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 897 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 3443 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 897 Another copy of the same. This most magnificent copy of the Khâwarnâma is about 200 years old (undated) and illustrated with 156 gorgeous pictures, most of them nearly full-sized, in the richest variety of colours. Beginning as usual: نخستين برين نامۀ دلگشای سخن نقش بستم بنام خداى One leaf is missing between ff. 206 and 207 (the lacuna corresponding to fol. 104a, margin-column, l. 12 ab infra, to fol. 104b, margin-column, l. 5 in the preceding copy). On one of the fly-leaves at the end of the MS. a Persian note, written by ‘Alî Ibrâhîmkhân in 1789, gives the title and author’s name of this poem, fixes correctly his death in A.H. 875, in the reign of Shaikh ‘Umar Mîrzâ ibn Amîr Tîmûr, and alleges two peculiar reasons why it was styled خاورنامه, viz. (I) because خاوران is a place in Khurâsân, and the author, Ibn Ḥusâm, lived in Khurâsân, namely in Ḳuhistân; (2) because خاوران means ‘east and west’ (مشرق و مغرب), and the wonderful exploits of the hero of this poem are said to have taken place in the west (مغرب) ! He further states, that this poem is especially renowned in Iṣfahân and Khurâsân, although the stories related are devoid of historical truth, that it contains 23,735 baits and 157 illustrations on 362 folios. He adds, that it must have been copied for a king or Amîr. An English translation of this Persian note by H. T. Prinsep, Esq., is affixed to a fly-leaf in the beginning of the MS. Another English note, but by a different hand and without signature, is stuck to one of the fly-leaves at the end, and runs thus: ‘I am not skilful in ascertaining the age and value of a Persian manuscript, but I should think, as well from the handwriting as from the pictures, that this copy was made in the north Of India, and not in Persia, and that the artists were natives of India who have taken old Persian paintings for their-models. I should therefore place this MS. in the third or fourth rank as a mere work of art. But it appears, from the little that I have had time to look into, to be very correct, and the handwriting is very distinct, which give it additional value: and I have no doubt but it was made with great care and a vast expense. I know nothing of the character of the work; for this is the first copy I have ever met with: nor have I found any reference to the author in other works. He has used the measure and seems to have copied the style of Firdūsī in his celebrated Shâh-Nâmah, but I am not sufficiently acquainted with the two works to make any further comparison.’ No. 3443, ff. 361, 4 coll., each ll. 19; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; each column is separated from the other by a large gold stripe; splendid frontispieces on ff. 1b and 35b ; ff. 1b, 2a, 35b, and 36a richly illuminated; pictures on ff. 4a, 7a, 8a, 12a, 13a, 14b, 15b, 17b, 19b, 22b, 26a, 28a, 29a, 30b, 32b, 35a, 37a, 39a, 41a, 43a, 46a, 47b, 49a, 51b, 52b, 54b, 57b, 59b, 62b, 64b, 66b, 69b, 73a, 75a, 77a, 79b, 81a, 82b, 84a, 85b, 87a, 89a, 90b, 93a, 94b, 96b, 99a, 102a, 104b, 107b, 110a, 113b, 115b, 118a, 121a, 123b, 127a, 128b, 130b, 132b, 136a, 138a, 140b, 142a, 145a, 146b, 147b, 150a, 152b, 154b, 156b, 159a, 161a, 163a, 164b, 166b, 168a, 170a, 172b, 174b, 176a, 178a, 180a, 184b, 187a, 190a, 192b, 194b, 198b, 201b, 204a, 206a, 208a, 210a, 212a, 215a, 216b, 219a, 223b, 226b, 228a, 230a, 231b, 233b, 236b, 237b, 240b, 243a, 245a, 247a, 249a, 251b, 252b, 253b, 254b, 258a, 261a, 263a, 264a, 267a, 270a, 272b, 275a, 279a, 282a, 285b, 287a, 288b, 290a, 292b, 296a, 298b, 301b, 304a, 306b, 309a, 312b, 313b, 316b, 318b, 321b, 324a, 327a, 330a, 331b, 332b, 334a, 336b, 339a, 341a, 345a, 348a, 351b, 358a, 359a, and 361a; solid eastern binding; size, 133/4 in. by 105/8 in.

[IO Islamic 139] حملۀ حيدرى

<ul> <li>Ḥamla-i-Ḥaidarî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 900 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 139 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 900 Ḥamla-i-Ḥaidarî (حملۀ حيدرى). Another imitation of the Shâhnâma, in the form of a poetical biography of Muḥammad and ‘Alî, a kind of rhymed paraphrase of Mu’în-almiskîn’s معارج النبوّة (Nos. 138-144 in this Cat.), by Muḥammad Rafi’khân, with the takhalluṣ Bâdhil, who died A.H. 1123 (A.D. 1711), but left the work unfinished, which was completed twelve years after, A.H. 1135 (A.D. 1723), by Najaf, who added an older poem on the same subject, by Sayyid Abû Ṭâlib of Iṣfahân, to the end of Bâdhil’s epopee, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 390 (Khulâṣat-alkalâm, Nos. 9 and 10), 518 and 519; Rieu ii. p. 704; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 368; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 533, and Mohl, préface to the ‘Livre des rois,’ p. lxxvii note. It must not be confounded with another quite modern epopee of the same title, حملۀ حيدرى, and in the same metre, composed by Mullâ Bamûn ‘Alî Kirmânî, with the takhalluṣ Râjî, A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805), and lithographed in Bombay, A.H. 1264, etc.; see Rieu, loc. cit.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 540, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 534. According to the last-named Catal., the original work of Bâdhil was concluded in A.H. 1119 (A.D. 1707, 1708), after fifty years’ labour. It has been lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1267. The poem is divided here into two parts, the first beginning, on fol. 1b: بنام خداوند بسيار بخش خرد بخش و دين بخش و دينار بخش The second, on fol. 147b: بنام برآرندۀ كامها – از آغاز داناى انجامها The first heading in the second part is: داستان خيبر و وقائع سال هفتم و امر فرمودن سيّد كائنات مهيّا شدن لشكر اسلام را،. This copy is larger than Ouseley 357 in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., loc. cit.), the last chapter of that copy being found here on fol. 283b. Copied by Muḥammad A’żam bin Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ. No date. No. 139, ff. 346, 4 coll., each ll. 20; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 147b; size, 12 in. by 7¼ in.

[IO Islamic 132] ديوان ناصر خسرو

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-i-Khusrau.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 903 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 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 903 Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-i-Khusrau ( ديوان ناصر خسرو). The dîwân or rather one of the dîwâns of Abû Mu’în Nâṣir bin Khusrau, with the takhalluṣ Ḥujjat, who was born in Ḳubâdiyân near Balkh, A.H. 394, Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1004, August-September), and died in Yumgân A.H. 481 (A.D. 1088); see on the life and works of this truly wonderful man, whose real character has so long been shrouded in mystery, and whose very identity with the author of the Safarnâma has been hotly disputed until a very recent date, especially Fagnan, Note sur Nâçir ibn Khosrou (Journal Asiatique, vii série, tome 13, 1879, pp. 164-168); Rieu i. pp. 379-381, and iii. p. 1086b; Schefer, Sefer Nameh, Paris, 1881, Introduction; and Ethé, Nâṣir bin Khusraus Leben, Denken und Dichten (compare Haft Iḳlîm, No. 863, col. 441 in this Cat.), and Die mystische, didaktische und lyrische Poesie, etc. der Perser, Hamburg, 1888, pp. 13-19. Copies of this dîwân are described in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 428; G. Flügel i. p. 496, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 741; there are also two copies lately added to the British Museum Collection (Or. 2845 and 3323); large extracts are found in the Butkhâna (Bodleian Cat., No. 366, ff. 36b-66b), and a peculiar tasmîṭ in the Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., No. 1333, col. 802); a lithographed edition appeared in Tabrîz, A.H. 1280. Selections from Nâṣir’s dîwân, with German metrical translation, have been edited by Ethé in the Göttinger Nachrichten, 1882, pp. 124-152, and in the Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. 36, pp. 478-508; one poem of his has also been published by W. Shukowskij in Sapisski, iv. pp. 386-393, 1890. Other works of the poet are: (1) the Rûshanâ’înâma, see below, No. 904; (2) the Sa’âdatnâma (edited by Fagnan in the Zeitschrift, vol. 34, pp. 643-674; compare also Dr. Teufel’s critical remarks on it, ib., vol. 36, pp. 106-114); (3) the Safarnâma (edited with French translation and valuable notes by Schefer, Paris, 1881; see also A.R. Fuller in the Journal of the Roy. Asiat. Society, 1872, pp. 142-164; and Guy Le Strange, Nâṣir-i-Khusrau, Diary of a Journey through Syria and Palestine, London, Palest. Pilgrims’ Text Sec., 1888); (4) the Zâd-almusâfirîn (here styled in the very short biographical introduction زاد المسافر), which is in the private collection of M. Schefer (comp. his Chrestomathie Persane, vol. i, Paris, 1883, p. 182); (5 and 6) the كتاب وجه الدين and the كتاب دليل المتحيّرين (ib., p. ١٦١), neither of which seems to be extant now. Beginning of the present copy, on fol. 97b: خداوندى كه در وحدت قديمست از همه اشيا نه اندر وحدتش كثرت نه محدث را ازو تنها This dîwân, which forms the sixth and last part of a very old and precious collection of Persian dîwâns, formerly belonging to Shâh Isma’îl Ṣafawî and bearing his seal in many places (see W. Morley, p. 7, note 1), was copied A.H. 714 in Dhû-alḳâ’dah=A.D. 1315, February, by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî-alkâshî (the other five dîwâns are those of Amîr Mu’izzî, Athîr-aldîn Akhsîkatî, Adîb Ṣâbir, Niżâm-aldîn Maḥmûd Ḳamar Iṣfahânî, and Shams-aldîn Maḥmûd al-Ṭabasî). It is unfortunately greatly damaged in many places ad particularly towards the end. No. 132, ff. 97-112, 6 coll., each ll. 40; written in a very peculiar and striking style of Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 97b, and a vignette on fol. 97a; miniature paintings of a rather funny character throughout; size, 15¾ in. by 11 in.

[IO Islamic 1841] ديوان فرّخى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Farrukhî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 902 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 1841 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 2. Poets contemporary with and subsequent To Firdausî. 902 Dîwân-i-Farrukhî (ديوان فرّخى). The very rare dîwân of the court-poet of Sulṭân Maḥmûd of Ghazna, Ustâd Abû-alḥasan ‘Alî bin Jûlû’ (or Ḳûlû’) Farrukhî, a native of Sîstân, whose death is fixed by Taḳî Kâshî in A.H. 470 (A.D. 1077, 1078); see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 3, No. 22, and 15, No. 3; compare besides Âtashkada, No. 198 (Bodleian Cat., col. 269, where a work on poetry and rhetorical art, ترجمان البلاغة, is ascribed to him); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 207 (ib., col. 309, where he is called a pupil of ‘Unṣurî, the king of poets at Sulṭân Maḥmûd’s court); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1839 (ib., col. 358); Haft Iḳlîm, No. 302 (col. 399 in this Cat.), and Bodleian Cat., col. 823. But a much earlier and – as it seems- more correct date for his demise is given in Riḍâ Ḳulîkhân’s very reliable work, the مجمع الفصحا, vol. i. p. 439, viz. A.H. 429 (A.D. 1037, 1038); see also Schefer, Chrestomathic Persane, vol. ii. pp. 242-246, and pp. ٢٤٧-٢٥٢, where a few select poems in Persian text are given. There are two other complete copies of this dîwân in the British Museum (Or. 2945 and 3246). The present copy is unfortunately much damaged, whole portions of the first thirteen leaves having been torn away. The dîwân consists chiefly of ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end. Beginning: زبهر تهنيت عيد بامداد پگاه الخ. The second hemistich of this initial bait is partly destroyed. The second ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 2a, alludes to Sulṭân Maḥmûd’s conquest of Ḳannûj, viz.: توئى كنندۀ دين محمّد مختار يمين دولت محمود قاهر كفّار چو بازگشت بفيروزى از در قنّوج الخ No date. No. 1841, ff. 200, 2 coll., each ll. 22-23; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 2486] رباعيّات عمر خيّام

<ul> <li>Rubâ’iyyât-i-’Umar Khayyâm.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 907 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 2486 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 907 Another copy of the same. The same short biographical notice as in the preceding copy; beginning of the rubâ’îs on fol. 159a, also the same. No date. This copy contains 362 rubâ’îs in alphabetical order, except the first. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2486, ff. 158-194, 5 rubâ’îs in a page; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 5 in.

[IO Islamic 2420] رباعيّات عمر خيّام

<ul> <li>Rubâ’iyyât-i-’Umar Khayyâm.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 906 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 2420 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> Poets who died between A.H. 500 and 600. 906 Rubâ’iyyât-i-’Umar Khayyâm (رباعيّات عمر خيّام). The quatrains of the famous astronomer, mathematician, and freethinker, Maulânâ Abû-alfatḥ ‘Umar bin Ibrâhîm al-Khayyâm (or al-Khayyâmî), whose death is generally fixed in A.H. 517 (A.D. 1123), see the fullest account of his life and tendencies of his poetry in Whinfield’s Introduction to his edition of ‘The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam,’ and C. J. Pickering, ‘Umar of Nishapur,’ in the National Review, 1890, December; comp. also Meinsma, Omar Chajjam van Nishapoer etc. in De Gids, 1891, iii. pp. 504-535. Other copies are found in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., Nos. 524 and 525), the British Museum (Rieu ii. p. 546), in Gotha (W. Pertsch, p. 25), Berlin (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 86), Vienna (G. Flügel i. p. 496), Calcutta, (Asiatic Society, No. 1548), Paris (two MSS.), and Cambridge; see also A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 464; Garcin de Tassy in Journal Asiatique, 5e série, vol. ix. P. 548, etc. Eastern editions: Calcutta, A.H. 1252 (A.D. 1836); Ṭahrân, A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1861, 1862), and Lucknow, 1878 and 1883; also a fragmentary edition (containing sixty-two rubâ’îs) by H. Blochmann. European editions by J. B. Nicolas (a reprint of the Ṭahrân text with French translation), Paris, 1867; by E. H. Whinfield (with English metrical translation), London, 1883; and by the Oriental Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg, 1888 (lithographed after a copy made A.H. 1285 by Mîr Ḥusain in Tabrîz). English translations (without the text) by E. Fitzgerald, London, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1890; E. H. Whinfield, London, 1882; J. Leslie Garner, Milwaukee, 1888; also some selection in verse in the appendix to the ‘Dialogue of the Gulshan-i-Raz,’ London, 1887. German translation in verse by A.F. Schack, Stuttgart, 1878, and by Bodenstedt, Breslau, 1881. The present copy begins with a short biographical notice of the poet:رباعيّات افصح المتقدّمين ملك الحكما مولانا عمر خيّام رحمة الله عليه’ در تأريخ قدما مسطور و مذكور است كه وفات الخ. Beginning of the first rubâ’î (the same as the initial poem in Bodl. 367): اى سوختۀ سوختۀ سوختنی وى آتش دوزخ زتو افروختنى (=No. 488 in Whinfield’s edition). The third rubâ’î is identical with the initial one in Rieu’s first copy: آمد سحرى ندا زميخانۀ ما الخ (=No. 1 in Whinfield). This modern copy, dated 1811, contains 512 rubâ’îs in alphabetical order, except the first. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2420, ff. 212-264, 5 rubâ’îs in a page; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 328] ديوان ابو الفرج رونى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Abû-alfaraj Rûnî .</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 905 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 328 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 905 Dîwân-i-Abû-alfaraj Rûnî (ديوان ابو الفرج رونى). Lyrical poems by Abû-alfaraj bin Mas’ûd al-Rûnî, who was born in Lâhûr (see the Haft Iḳlîm, No. 358), and flourished in the reigns of Sulṭân Ibrâhîm of Ghazna (A.H. 451-492=A.D. 1059-1099) and his son and successor Sulṭân Mas’ûd III (A.H. 492-508=A.D. 1099-1114), to both of whom he addressed panegyrics. He is not to be confounded with an older poet, Abû-alfaraj Sijzî, who was attached to the court of the Amir Abû ‘Alî Sîmjûr, the governor of Khurâsân under the Sâmânides (see Haft Iḳlim, No. 303), and whose pupil ‘Unṣurî was. The usual dates, assigned to Abû-alfaraj Rûnî’s death, viz. A.H. 482 or 489 (A.D. 1089 or 1096), cannot be authentic, as the poet styles Sulṭân Mas’ûd III, the reigning sovereign in various ḳaṣîdas; compare Bodleian Cat., Nos. 366 (Butkhâna, No. 1), 523, and 1333 (col. 823); Rieu ii. p. 547, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 308. This dîwân, which is incomplete at the end, contains chiefly ḳaṣîdas, with a few ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs. Beginning: سپهر دولت و دين پادشاه (آفتاب in other copies) هفت اقليم ابو المظفّر شاه مظفّر ابراهيم The copy breaks off on fol. 429b; ff. 430b-432 contain a short extract from Sa’dî’s Bûstân, written by another hand. Dated by ‘Abd-alraḳîb the 24th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, July 15). No. 328, ff. 378-432, 2 coll., each ll. 18; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 101/2 in. by 51/2 in.

[IO Islamic 1430] روشنائى نامه

<ul> <li>Rûshanâ’înâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 904 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 1430 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 904 Rûshanâ’înâma ( روشنائى نامه). The oldest didactic mathnawî of the Persians, ‘the book of enlightenment,’ by the same Nâṣir bin Khusrau; it has been edited with German metrical translation and an introduction by Ethé in the Zeitschrift der D.M.G., vol. 33, 1879, pp. 645-665, and vol. 34, 1880, pp. 428-464 and 617-642 (compare Dr. Teufel’s critical remarks on it, ib., vol. 36, pp. 96-106); the other four copies of this poem are in Gotha (W. Pertsch, p. 13), Leyden (Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 107), and Paris (No. 781, A. du suppl., and in the private collection of M. Schefer); as date of composition appears in the Gotha codex, A.H. 420 (A.D. 1029), in the other three A.H. 343 (A.D. 954, 955), and in the present copy on fol. 57b, l. 7, A.H. 323 (A.D. 935); the correct date seems to be A.H. 440 or 441 (A.D. 1048-1050), see Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. 34, p. 638, note 5. Beginning: بنام كردگار پاك داور كه هست از عقل و وهم و فكر برتر Corresponding to v. 163 in Ethé’s edition (the 162 verses of the introduction are wanting here as in all copies except that of Gotha). Dated A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651). No. 1430, ff. 36b-54b, 2 coll., each ll. 12; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 1430] ديوان حضرت غوث الثقلين

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Ḥaḍrat Ghauth-althaḳalain.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 930 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 1430 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 930 Dîwân-i-Ḥaḍrat Ghauth-althaḳalain (ديوان حضرت غوث الثقلين). Lyrical poems of the great founder of the Ḳâdirî order, Shâh Muḥyi-aldîn Sayyid ‘Abd-alḳâdir aljîlî, with the honorary epithet of Ghauth-althaḳalain or Ghauth ala’żam, who was born in Ramaḍân, A.H. 470 or 471 (A.D. 1078 or 1079), and died in Rabî’ II, A.H. 561 (A.D. 1166, Febr.), see Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 36. They are in alphabetical order and begin: گر بيائى بسر تربت ويرانۀ ما بينى از خون جگر آب زده خانۀ ما Copied from a MS. of Nawwâb Bihrûzkhân. No date. Presented by Sir Barry Close, 14th May, 1813. No. 1430, ff. 1-35, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; collated; size, 93/8 in. 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1430] طريق التحقيق

<ul> <li>Ṭarîḳ-altaḥḳîḳ.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 926 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 1430 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 926 Ṭarîḳ-altaḥḳîḳ (طريق التحقيق). Another complete copy of Sanâ’î’s mathnawî Ṭarîḳ-altaḥḳîḳ, beginning as in No. 3346 (914 above), fol. 278b. On the last page appears the date of composition, A.H. 528: پانصد و بيست و هشت زآخر سال بود كين نظم نغز يافت كمال Dated the 15th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651, June 5). No. 1430, ff. 153b-188b, 2 coll., each ll. 12-13; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 103/8 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2832] انتخاب حديقۀ حکیم سنائى

<ul> <li>Intikhâb-i-Ḥadiḳa-i-Ḥakîm Sanâ’î.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 925 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 2832 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 925 Intikhâb-i-Ḥadiḳa-i-Ḥakîm Sanâ’î ( انتخاب حديقۀ حکیم سنائى). Extracts from Sanâ’î’s Ḥadîḳah, made by Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr (who died A.H. 627=A.D. 1230), and arranged under certain headings, as : فى نعت الرسول, on fol. 174a; فى التوحيد, on fol. 174b; فى المعرفة, ib. ;فى التجلّى, fol. 175b; فى الاستناد on fol. 176a; فى الوحدة, on fol. 176b; فى القدرة و الحكمة, on fol. 178a ;فى العناية, on fol.179a; فى الهداية, on fol. 179b; فى الرزق, on fol. 180a; فى العلم و الجهل, on fol. 180b; فى الجسم و الروح, on fol. 184a; فى نفس الامارة, ib; فى نفس المطمئنّة, on fol. 184b; فى القلب, on fol. 185b; فى الايمان, on fol. 186a; فى العشق, on fol. 187b; فى الشوق, on fol. 189a; فى علامات الطريق, on fol. 190a; فى المجاهدة, on fol. 190b; فى الرياضة, on fol. 191a, ete. ete. Other copies of the same extracts in Bodleian Cat., No. 536; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 353; G. Flügel i. p. 501; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 750; and Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 328. No date. Beginning: حمد و شكر خدا على الاطلاق ذات حق را سزد باستحقاق الخ. No. 2832, ff. 173-203; written in diagonal lines, Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7 in. by 41/4 in.

[IO Islamic 1444] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnawîs.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 929 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 1444 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 929 Two mathnawîs by Mu’ayyid alnasafî. Two old mystical mathawîs in the very form and styled of the minor didactic poems of Sanâ’î, by a poet called Mu’ayyid alnasafî (who is no doubt identical with Mu’ayyid-aldîn Samarḳandî, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1428, col. 486 in this Cat., and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 659, No. 305), apparently a contemporary or disciple of the author of the Ḥadiḳah, whom he closely imitated. 1.نسيم الصبا الى الصبا, on ff. 24b-32b, beginning: اى مصابيح آسمان هدى – وى مفاتيح جنّة الماوى 2.پهلوان نامه, on ff. 94a-107b, beginning: مرحبا اى رفيق همدم من بشنو اين سرگذشت بر غم من The title of this second mathnawî appears at the bottom of fol. 32b, and again at the end of the poem, on fol. 107b, l. 13; the name of the poet, on fol. 32b, l. 4, and in the title itself. The Pahlawânnâma is divided into fourteen short maḳâlas, dealing with various ethical and mystical topics, and a khâtimah. Copied in Jumâdâ I, A.H. 637 (A.D. 1239, Dec.), by the same scribe who wrote No. 916 above, Faḍl-allâh bin Muḥammad bin ‘Umar bin ‘Uthmân alṣûfî. No. 1444, ff. 24-32 and 94-107, 4 coll., each ll. 25: good old Naskhî; many pages greatly injured; size, 9¼ in. by 6 in.