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[IO Islamic 1804] لطائف الطوائف
<ul> <li><strong>Laṭâ’if-alṭawâ’if</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 779 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 1804 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>779</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Beginning as in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Bâb I, on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>; II, on fol. 12<sup>b</sup>; III, on fol. 27<sup>a</sup>; IV, on fol. 35<sup>b</sup>; V, on fol. 43<sup>a</sup>; VI, on fol. 50<sup>a</sup>; VII, on fol. 61<sup>a</sup> (here wrongly styled فصل instead of باب); VIII, on fol. 71<sup>b</sup>; IX, on fol. 83<sup>b</sup>; X, on fol. 111<sup>a</sup>; XI, on fol. 131<sup>b</sup>; XII, on fol. 137<sup>b</sup>; XIII, on fol. 146<sup>b</sup>; XIV, on fol. 154<sup>b</sup>. The title given to it in the colophon is لطائف الظرائف (see the remark in the preceding copy); the proper title لطائف الطوائف appears on fol.2<sup>b</sup>, last line, and fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, first line.</p> <p>The first owner of this copy, which is not dated, was Mirzâ Muḥammad Ḥasan bin Ghaḍandarkhân ‘Âlamgîr-shâhî.</p> <p>No. 1804, ff. 164, ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece; size, 10<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 942] قصّۀ امير حمزه
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 785 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 942 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>785</p> <p>Portion of an enlarged version of the same.</p> <p>The incomplete romance, contained in this most incorrect copy, and styled on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, both (!) قصَۀ امير همزه and قصّۀ امير عرب , seems to be an enlarged and greatly modified redaction of the original Ḥamzanâma, resembling that defective copy of the رموز حمزه (or as it is styled with the same mistake in spelling as here: رموز همزه), which is described in Rieu ii. p. 761 (Add. 24, 418). A great number of the first chapters are apparently missing here; the portion preserved in our copy contains thirty short داستان (on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>, 8<sup>b</sup>, 12<sup>b</sup>, 16<sup>a</sup>, 19<sup>b</sup>, 29<sup>b</sup>, 33<sup>a</sup>, 39<sup>b</sup>, 42<sup>b</sup>, 47<sup>a</sup>, 59<sup>b</sup>, 62<sup>b</sup>, 65<sup>a</sup>, 68<sup>a</sup>, 69<sup>b</sup>, 77<sup>b</sup>, 82<sup>b</sup>, 91<sup>a</sup>, 99<sup>b</sup>, 104<sup>a</sup>, 108<sup>a</sup>, 113<sup>a</sup>, 119<sup>a</sup>, 130<sup>a</sup>, 136<sup>b</sup>, 143<sup>a</sup>, 145<sup>b</sup>, 163<sup>a</sup>, 173<sup>a</sup>, and 184<sup>b</sup>), every one of which begins with the phrase (read سر) آمدم بر سرى داستان. Among the prominent characters that appear here are, besides Ḥamzah himself (called امير عرب or عرب (!) همزۀ) and the prophet Muḥammad, شاهزادۀ ایرج, بابا عمر عيار, عاص بن انوس, زمرّدشاه, بديع الزمان , etc.</p> <p>Beginning of this copy, after the standard phrase which introduces every chapter: امّا للبن آرايان بساطين ( بساتين read) اخبار و نخل پيرايان فرداس ( فردوس read) اشمار گلدستۀ سخن تازه تر ازو نسترين ( از نسرين or از نسترين read) ازين باغ كهن چنين به بزم بيان آورده اند كه بابا عمر عيار بر درى ( در read ) بارگاه زمرّدشاه رسيد الخ.</p> <p>No date. The رموز حمزه have been printed in seven vols., Ṭahrân, A.H. 1274.</p> <p>No. 942, ff. 186, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>3/4</sup> in. 5<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2567] قصّۀ امير حمزه
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 784 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 2567 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>784</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Amîr Ḥamzah (قصّۀ امير حمزه).</p> <p>An incomplete copy of the romance of Amîr Ḥamzah, the son of ‘Abd-almuṭṭalib and uncle of the prophet, in a version similar, as it seems, to that in the copy of the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., No. 473), and the second and third copy of the British Museum (Rieu ii. p. 761). It begins thus:الحمد لله ..... امّا بعد قصّۀ داستان مرد ميدان پهلوان روى زمين عمّ رسول آخر الزمان امير حمزه بن عبدالمطّلب بن هاشم بن مناف قريشى كه مبارزان عالم را حلقۀ بندگی بگوش انداخته چنین آورده اند كه در قرن ماضيه كه در ايران زمين پادشاهى بود در شهر مدائن الخ.</p> <p>This copy breaks off at the end of the fifty-eighth dâstân, which deals with the battle of Uḥad, and begins on fol. 159<sup>a</sup>. The whole work contains, according to the various copies, from seventy to eighty dâstân. On the possible authorship of Mullâ Jalâl Balkhî, comp. Rieu, loc. cit., and Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la litter.</p> <p>Hind., 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 236; on Turkish versions of the Ḥamzanâma, Fleischer, Kleiner Schriften, iii. p. 228; Bodleian Cat., No. 2108; and G. Flügel ii. p. 29. Another copy of this romance is noticed in J. Aumer, p.55. Lithographed in Lucknow.</p> <p>No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2567, ff. 165, ll. 21; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 8<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2383] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 790 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 2383 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>790</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The same redaction again, beginning: سپاس و ستايش الخ ; this modern copy was finished the 8th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1217 (A.D. 1802, September 6), at Patna. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2383, ff. 1-126, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 897] قصّۀ شاه مردان على
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Shâh-i-mardân ‘Alî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 786 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 897 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>786</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Shâh-i-mardân ‘Alî (قصّۀ شاه مردان على).</p> <p>Another very large, but likewise incomplete, Persian romance of similar character and similar contents as the preceding one, and therefore styled, in a note, on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, قصّۀ حمزه ; but whether it is merely another enlarged version of the Ḥamzanâma or rather an independent romance, dealing with heroic deeds of the same period, is difficult to say; at any rate, the chief hero here is ‘Alî bin Abî Ṭâlib, Muḥammad’s son-in-law and fourth Khalîf, not Ḥamzah, the prophet’s uncle; every paragraph begins with the words امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه , and closes with the phrase يا على مدد. On the other hand, several characters appearing in the preceding copy of the Ḥamzanâma, are found here too, for instance, زمرّدشاه. In spite of its excessive length, this copy is by no means complete; it begins abruptly thus: امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه نقاب وار گوهرپوش طهماسپ را گرفت زمرّدشارا گرفت نقاب وار از عقب عمر الخ, and a great number of leaves are missing at the end; there is also a blank between the middle of fol. 6<sup>a</sup> and that of fol. 7<sup>a</sup>, and portions of ff. 8, 650, and 651 are torn away. Neither date nor author’s name appears anywhere. The same note on fol. 1<sup>a</sup> which gives to this romance the title of قصّۀ حمزه also states that it was copied A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673).</p> <p>No. 897, ff. 664, ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 5<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 980] دارابنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Dârâbnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 787 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 980 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>787</p> <p>Dârâbnâma (دارابنامه).</p> <p>A slightly incomplete copy of one of the numerous historical romances or collections of romantic stories, founded on Persian legends, by Abû Ṭâhir of Ṭarsus (or with his full name, Abû Ṭâhir Muḥammad bin Ḥasan bin ‘Alî bin Mûsâ Ṭarṭûsî or Ṭarsûsî), the fruitful author of prose-epopees in imitation of Firdausî’s Shâhnâma, comp. Mohl, Livre des Rois, i. préface, pp. 74 and 75. Other works of Abû Ṭâhir are the Ḳahramânnâma (also called Dâstân-i-Ḳahramân or Ḥikâyat-i-Ḳahramân-i-Ḳâtil, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 993; and on the Turkish translation of the same, W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 460 sq., and Fleischer, Cat. Lips., p. 522) and the Ḳirân-i-Ḥabashî (in Turkish translation in Bodleian Cat., No. 2101; Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 219 sq., etc.). Abû Ṭâhir’s original version of the present romance on Darius and Alexander had, according to the conclusion, on fol. 444<sup>a</sup>, been preserved in the library of the emperor Akbar and put into its present form by Kaiḳubâd bin Mihyâr, at the request of another eminent Persian, Nûshirwân bin Bahmânshâh. From the brouillon of that compiler, the present copy was made by ‘Abd-alraḥmân, and finished the 8th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617, May 14).</p> <p>The beginning is missing; it opens in the middle of the mythical account of Dârâb’s youth, in the usual manner of all Oriental fairy tales.</p> <p>The first and several other leaves are greatly injured.</p> <p>No. 980, ff. 444, ll. 25 on ff. 1-94 with many blanks, ll. 21 on ff. 95-443; written by two different hands in Naskhî; size, 11<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 7<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2497] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 789 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 2497 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>789</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>The same redaction of the story, as in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Beginning: آغاز داستان قصّۀ سيف الملك (! sic) و بديع الجمال ، سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را الخ.</p> <p>No date; the original part of the MS., in bold Naskhî, is considerably old and much damaged.</p> <p>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2497, ff. 1-67, ll. 14-15; Naskhî, except ff. 1-5, 11, and 51-67, which have been added by a much more modern hand, on white paper in Nasta’lîḳ, ll. 10-11; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 536] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 788 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 536 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>788</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl (قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال).</p> <p>The love-story of prince Saif-almulûk and princess Badî’-aljamâl, a tale from the Arabian nights in Persian translation or adaptation; the redaction of the story in the present copy is the common or second one, agreeing with No. 461 in the Bodleian Cat., Rieu ii. p. 764 (Egerton 1018), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 996 (No. 1044), and beginning: سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را كه بقلم صنع خود اين همه صورتهاى عجب ..... امّا بعد چنين گويد ( گويندBodl.copy) راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و حكيمان و بزرگان روزگار كه در ايّام محمود غازى الخ.</p> <p>Comp. also G. Flügel ii. p. 27. An Eastern Turkish version in mathnawî-baits, composed A.H. 960 in Rabî’-alawwal (A.D. 1553, Febr.-March) is preserved in No. 2824, ff. 1-85, of this collection.</p> <p>Dated the 19th of Ramaḍân in the seventeenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (A.H. 1148=A.D. 1736, Febr.2).</p> <p>No. 536, ff. 67, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; very curious and comical illustrations on ff. 4<sup>a</sup>, 5<sup>a</sup>, 14<sup>a</sup>, 14<sup>b</sup>, 17<sup>a</sup>, 17<sup>b</sup>,21<sup>a</sup>, 23<sup>b</sup>, 25<sup>b</sup>, 26<sup>a</sup>, 31<sup>b</sup>, 34<sup>a</sup>, 34<sup>b</sup>, 36<sup>b</sup>, 38<sup>a</sup>, 39<sup>b</sup>, 41<sup>b</sup>, 51<sup>a</sup>, 52<sup>a</sup>, 54<sup>b</sup>, 55<sup>a</sup> (the full page), 59<sup>b</sup>, 60<sup>a</sup> (again the full page), 63<sup>b</sup>, 64<sup>a</sup> (the full page), 66<sup>b</sup> and 67<sup>a</sup> (<em>one</em> picture, filling the two pages); size, 8 in. by 4<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 810] افسانت الغرائب
<ul> <li><strong>Afsânat-algharâ’ib.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 799 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 810 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>799</p> <p>Afsânat-algharâ’ib (افسانت الغرائب).</p> <p>Another collection of Persian stories, without preface or conclusion, similar in character and sometimes in contents also to those in the جامع الحكايات in No. 797 (comp., for instance, Nos. 21 and 22 of this compilation with Nos. 15 and 4 in the preceding one). The above title is found on the fly-leaf, and there is also the name of the author quoted, viz. Mullâ Tayammunî Rûmî (ملّا تيمّنى رومى). It contains the following tales:</p> <p>1.قصّۀ اسكندر ذو القرنين, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>. 2.قصّۀ منظر شاه, on fol. 38<sup>a</sup>. 3.حكايت برهمن , on fol. 55<sup>a</sup>. 4.حكايت پادشاه كشمير, on fol. 78<sup>b</sup>. 5.حكايت دهقان فارس, on fol. 81<sup>a</sup>. 6.حكايت روباهى گرسنه, on fol. 85<sup>a</sup>. 7.حكايت مرد مسافر, on fol. 88<sup>b</sup>. 8.حكايت دمنه, on fol. 93<sup>a</sup>. 9. قصّۀ بوزينه, on fol. 95<sup>a</sup>. 10.حكايت سه جوان, on fol. 97<sup>a</sup> (see a similar story in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 988, No. 2). 11.حكايت موش و گربه (W. Pertsch, loc. cit., No. 8), on fol. 105<sup>b</sup>. 12.حكايت عادلخان, on fol. 112<sup>a</sup>. 13.حكايت پادشاه سمرقند, on fol. 132<sup>a</sup>. 14.حكايت قاسم ديوانه, on fol. 137<sup>b</sup>. 15. حكايت گل ترک, on fol. 151<sup>b</sup>. 16.حكايت عبدالله, on fol. 152<sup>a</sup>. 17. حكايت مرد پيرى هيمه كش, on fol. 156<sup>a</sup>. 18. حكايت عظيم الملك, on fol. 165<sup>b</sup>. 19.حكايت پادشاه بصره, on fol. 178<sup>a</sup>. 20.حكايت رئيس موصل, on fol. 193<sup>b</sup>. 21.قصّۀ حجّاج, on fol. 204<sup>a</sup>. 22.حكايت شهزاده بهرام و گل اندام, on fol. 216<sup>b</sup>. 23.حكايت مرد نيشاپور در بلاد عراق, on fol. 239<sup>b</sup>. 24. حكايت خاورشاه پادشاه, on fol. 247<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Beginning: واقعۀ تولّد ذوالقرنين بدانكه اسكندر اصل از مغرب است ليكن بسبب آنكه مادر او از روم است او را اسكندر رومى گويند الخ.</p> <p>No date. Fol. 2 a little injured.</p> <p>No. 810, ff. 264, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 4<sup>5/8 </sup>in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1527] معدن الجواهر
<ul> <li><strong>Ma’dan-aljawâhir.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 795 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 1527 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>795</p> <p>A shorter redaction of the same.</p> <p>This copy contains the text of the Ma’dan-aljawâhir in that shorter form in which it is found in the two Bodleian copies, the second Munich copy (J. Aumer, No. 190), and the Berlin copy, viz. in seventeen bâbs only, to which are added between the second and third two other bâbs, corresponding to the twenty-second and the third in the preceding copies (beginning here respectively on ff. 63<sup>a</sup> and 85<sup>b</sup>), and the same conclusion as in No. 793, exhibiting the name of the author, Ṭarzî, and the chronogram for A.H. 1025. The seventeen bâbs of this copy correspond to those in No. 793, as follows: Bâb I, on fol. 8<sup>b</sup>=1st; II, on fol. 13<sup>a</sup>=2nd; III, on fol. 97<sup>a</sup>=9th; IV, on fol. 113<sup>b</sup>=12th; V, on fol. 118<sup>a</sup>-8th; VI, on fol. 126<sup>b</sup> =10th; VII, on fol. 134<sup>a</sup>=14th; VIII, on fol. 138<sup>a</sup>= 4th; IX, on fol. 141<sup>b</sup>=5th; X, on fol. 144<sup>b</sup>=7th; XI, on fol. 147<sup>b</sup>=6th; XII, on fol. 150<sup>a</sup>=11th; XIII, on fol. 153<sup>a</sup>=21st; XIV, on fol. 157<sup>a</sup>=20th; XV, on fol. 161<sup>b</sup>=19th; XVI, on fol. 164<sup>b</sup>=18th; XVII, on fol. 169<sup>a</sup>=16th.</p> <p>Conclusion, on fol. 170<sup>b</sup>. Entirely missing are consequently bâbs 13, 15, and 17 of the larger redaction.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 1527, ff. 172, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 8 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2652] محبوب القلوب
<ul> <li><strong>Maḥbûb-alḳulûb.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 800 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 2652 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>800</p> <p>Maḥbûb-alḳulûb (محبوب القلوب).</p> <p>A collection of moral tales by Barkhwurdâr bin Maḥmûd Turkmân of Farâh, with the takhalluṣ Mumtâz, see fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, l. 2, and fol. 72<sup>a</sup>, l. 3. The title appears on fol. 72<sup>a</sup>, l. 6. It is in substance the same work as noticed in Rieu ii. p. 767 sq., but differs in so far as it is considerably smaller in extent and lacks the preface quoted there. The beginning (which differs from that in Rieu’s copy) is exactly the same as that of the Berlin copy (noticed by W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 317, No. 289), viz.: چهره پرداز عرائس حريم عجز و نياز و مصوّر نگار خانۀ فرنگ آب الخ.</p> <p>The short introduction on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>-2<sup>b</sup>, in which there is only mention of the author’s stay in Harât (fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, l. 12), refers exclusively to the <em>first story</em> of our collection, which begins on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, and bears as title (see fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, l. 8): حكايت فيروزشاه مصرى و گنجور عابد (given as general title to the whole collection on the fly-leaf).</p> <p>The subdivisions consist of حكايت and باب, the latter nine in number (on ff. 22<sup>b</sup>, 38<sup>a</sup>, 40<sup>b</sup>, 50<sup>b</sup>, 61<sup>a</sup>, 66<sup>a</sup>, 69<sup>a</sup>, 71<sup>b</sup>, and 165<sup>a</sup>); the last bâb contains, as in Rieu’s copy, the story of Ra’nâ and Zîbâ ( باب از كتاب رعنا و زيبا). The author flourished under Minûćihrkhân’s governorship of Mashhad (A.H. 1034-1074=A.D. 1625-1664), see Rieu iii. p. 1093<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>No date. The Maḥbûb-alḳulûb has been printed in Bombay, A.H. 1268. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2652, ff. 197, ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ, by different hands, mixed with Shikasta; size, 12<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 7<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3083] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 792 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 3083 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>792</p> <p>Another short redaction of the same.</p> <p>Title: قصّۀ سيف الملك (! sic ) و بديع الجمال و گلستان ارم (.see W. Pertsch,loc.cit ) و ساعد و شهباز پادشاه پريان و غير اين من منشى نواز׳.</p> <p>Beginning:بدانكه چنين آورده اند راويان اخبار و ناقلان اثرار ( آثارof instead ! sic) و گذارندگان سخنان كه در زمين پیشین شهنشاه عادل سلطان محمود سبکتگین رحمة الله عليه بخدمت سلطنت پناهى سرافراز گشت الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 3rd of Rabî’-alawwal (the year is left out).</p> <p>No. 3083, ff. 10-48, ll. 13; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 7<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 95] معدن الجواهر
<ul> <li><strong>Ma’dan-aljawâhir.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 796 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 95 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>796</p> <p>Two short stories, on ff. 203-206<sup>a</sup> and ff. 206<sup>a</sup>-216 respectively; the first alleged to have been taken from the preceding معدن الجواهر and beginning: يكى از عارفان حقيقى بگذارش آورده كه جوانى از ممالك هندوستان بفضائل گوناگون الخ.</p> <p>The second, without a heading, opens thus: در نامهاى باستانى بنظر درآمده كه در ولايت گيلان الخ.</p> <p>The last pages a little injured.</p> <p>No. 95, ff. 203-216, ll. 15; Shikasta; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 4<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1197] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 791 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 1197 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>791</p> <p>A shorter redaction of the same story.</p> <p>This redaction, considerably shorter and differing much in the wording (comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 462 and 463, and Rieu ii. p. 765), begins: راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و خوانندگان تواريخ ..... چنین آورده اند كه سلطان محمود پادشاه را الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 11th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1120 (A.D. 1708, June 30).</p> <p>No. 1197, ff. 41<sup>b</sup>-73, ll. 15; Shikasta, partly written in diagonal lines; size, 8<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1559] معدن الجواهر
<ul> <li><strong>Ma’dan-aljawâhir.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 793 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 1559 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>793</p> <p>Ma’dan-aljawâhir (معدن الجواهر).</p> <p>A collection of moral tales and anecdotes in twenty-two bâbs and a conclusion, or اختتام, made by Mullâ Ṭarzî, A.H. 1025=A.D. 1616 (see author’s name and ta’rîkh, viz. تأريخ او كتاب جهانگير پادشاه, on fol. 206<sup>a</sup>, l. 12 sq.), and dedicated to the emperor Jahângîr. This copy, which is not dated, but contains among the MSS. Of the India Office collection the fullest redaction of the work, begins: جهان جهان نيايش جهاندارى را سزد كه رايات جهانگيرى فرمان روايان والا شكوه بر اوج گنبذ گردان الخ.</p> <p>Comp. On this collection Bodleian Cat., Nos. 464 and 465 (containing the shorter redaction in seventeen bâbs, see No. 795 below); W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 983 (Also the shorter redaction); J. Aumer, p. 60; and Rieu iii. p. 1038.</p> <p>Index, on fol. 11<sup>a</sup>. Bâb I ( در بيان درجۀ شهادت و قدرتى الخ), on fol. 11<sup>b</sup>; II ( در عشق و محبّت), on fol. 17<sup>b</sup>; III (در جود و سخاوت), on fol. 62<sup>a</sup>; IV (در فضيلت توكّل و قناعت), on fol.84<sup>a</sup>; V ( در فضيلت اكل حلال و صدق مقال), on fol. 89<sup>b</sup> ; VI ( در بيان بخشايش الهى الخ), on fol. 94<sup>a</sup>; VII ( در بيان استغناى ايزدى الخ), on fol. 97<sup>b</sup>; VIII ( در وفا و حقيقت و نتيجۀ آن), on fol. 101<sup>b</sup>; IX ( در بيوفائى و بيحقيقى و ثمرۀ آن) , on fol. 113<sup>b</sup>; X (در پاداش تهمت و افترا الخ), on fol. 130<sup>a</sup>; XI (در بيان آنكه طينت آدمى زاد بآب غم سرشته), on fol. 135<sup>b</sup>; XII ( در فضيلت ديانت و امانت), on fol. 141<sup>a</sup>; XIII ( در نتيجۀ بیديانتى و كفران نعمت), on fol. 145<sup>b</sup>; XIV (در معدلت و انصاف), on fol. 150<sup>b</sup>; XV ( در نتائج بُتْپرستى و دغابازى), on fol. 156<sup>b</sup>; XVI (در نتيجۀ انديشۀ تباه در بارۀ مردم بيگناه ) , on fol. 158<sup>b</sup> ; XVII (در بيان گوش كردن اندرز خير سگالان صواب انديشه), on fol. 179<sup>a</sup>; XVIII ( در بيان احوال ستاره شناسان الخ), on fol. 183<sup>a</sup>; XIX ( در بيان حقيقت سرود و سماع), on fol. 187<sup>a</sup>; XX ( در بيان شگیفتهاى تقدير) on fol. 190<sup>a</sup> ; XXI ( در مذمّت فقر اضطرارى), on fol. 191<sup>b</sup>; XXII ( در نگارش تلبيس زنان مكّارۀ بدكاره), on fol. 195<sup>a</sup>. Conclusion ( در بيان احوال خويش و نياگان رفيع الشان), on fol. 205<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 1559, ff. 206, ll. 14-17 (ff. 195-204, ll. 13 on different paper); Nasta’lîḳ, by various hands; size, 9<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1239] جامع الحكايات
<ul> <li><strong>Jâmi’-alḥikâyât.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 798 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 1239 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>798</p> <p>Another, incomplete, copy of the same story, contained in No. 20 of the preceding collection, the story of the daughter of the Faghfûr or emperor of China, who puts certain critical questions to all her lovers, and kills them if they are not able to give the correct reply. A number of leaves are missing in the beginning, but the main portion of the story is complete. At the end a number of moral inferences are drawn, for instance: 1.بر پادشاهی اعتمادى نيست . 2.پادشاهی و گدائى وراحت و رنج بركس جاويد نماند. 3.از فرزند قابل آسايش دنيا و اخرت است. 4.در كارها فكر و تأمّل خوبست, etc.</p> <p>No date. Comp. Behrnauer, ‘Der junge Perser und die gricchische Prinzessin‘ in ‘Johannes-Album,’ Chemnitz, 1857, Prosaische Beiträge, pp. 55-70, where a much older version of the Turandot story is given, taken, as is stated there, from ‘Aufî’s original جامع الحكايات (or rather جوامع الحكايات). No date.</p> <p>No. 1239, ff. 20, ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 5<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2541] جامع الحكايات
<ul> <li><strong>Jâmi’-alḥikâyât.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 797 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 2541 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>797</p> <p>Jâmi’-alḥikâyât (جامع الحكايات).</p> <p>A collection of Persian stories, compiled from various sources in prose, interspersed with verses, by an anonymous author. Beginning, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى خامۀ سحر سنح بخرام – در راه سخن ورى بنه كام.</p> <p>Fol. 1 contains a useful index. The title of this collection appears on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, l. 6. Both the contents, and the few dates of composition which are found at the end of some of these stories, viz. Rajab, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619, June, July), on fol. 21<sup>b</sup>, l. 3 ab infra; and 4th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616, Aug. 17), on fol. 41<sup>b</sup>, last line (A.H. 1046=A.D. 1636, 1637, at the end of the whole work is probably the date of the copy), show, clearly enough, that this collection has nothing in common with ‘Aufî’s well-known work of a similar title (see Nos. 600-604 in this Cat.).</p> <p>The order of leaves, which are misplaced in a rather bewildering manner, is as follows: ff. 1-172, 217-228, 201-216, 173-200, 229-400.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.حكايت پادشاه كه در تلاش مرد بيغم سعى كرد, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>2.حكايت شاهزاده كه در حيات پدر سفر اختيار كرد, on fol. 11<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>3.حكايت مردى منعم از شهر حلب, on fol. 21<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>4.حكايت حجّاج بن يوسف ثقفى, (styled at the end حكايت مسعود دمشقى و حجّاج), on fol. 24<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>5.حكايت خشت زن شهر كازرون, on fol. 41<sup>b</sup>, last line.</p> <p>6.حكايت ملك فارس عزّ الملك و پسر او مجد الملك, on fol. 52<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>7.حكايت عزيز و زن, on fol. 74<sup>a</sup> (this story corresponds to the ninth in a collection of Persian tales in the Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).</p> <p>8.حكايت بازرگان كه در كاروان سراى نيشاپور فرود آمده بود, on fol. 79<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>9.حكايت هشام بن عبدالملك (this tale, which is not marked in the index, is taken from Aḥmad bin A’tham al-Kûfî’s كتاب فتوح in the Persian translation, described in Nos. 131-133 of this Cat.), on fol. 82<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>10.حكايت هارون الرشيد و جوان سگ پرست, on fol. 84<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>11.حكايت شيخ صنعان و مريدان, on fol. 97<sup>b</sup> (compare Bacher, Karl der Grosse und seine Tochter Emma in Zeitschrift der D. Morgenl. Gesellschaft, vol. 34, p. 614).</p> <p>12.حكايت چهار مرد (at the end: حكايت شهر بيجانان), on fol. 114<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>13.حكايت پرى و شاهزاده (in the index: حكايت پادشاه و پسر), in three قصّه , on ff. 119<sup>b</sup>, 123<sup>b</sup>, and 124<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>14.حكايت شاهزادۀ جوان و جوان بخت (in the index: حكايت پادشاه بلاد مغرب و سه پسراو), on fol. 125<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>15.حكايت بهرام گور و كنيزك (دلآرام), on fol. 141<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>16.حكايت شاهزادۀ نوجوان و دخترشاه يمن (in the index: حكايت پادشاه ولايت خطا), on fol. 146<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>17.حكايت دختر شاه كشمير و شاهزادۀ قنوج, on fol. 163<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>18.حكايت رضوان شاه و پرى و چشمه و آهو, on fol. 222<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>19.حكايت هارون الرشيد و اسحق موصلى, on fol. 204<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>20.حكايت آن شاهزاده كه مادر و پدر بفروخت و با دختر ملك چين مناظره كرد, on fol. 209<sup>a</sup>. (It is in substance identical with the original of Gozzi’s and Schiller’s Turandot, comp. another incomplete copy of the same story in No. 798; at the end the same moral inferences, which are given in the following copy.)</p> <p>21.حكايت پادشاه شمشير بند, on fol. 183<sup>a</sup> (corresponding to the eighth story in the above-mentioned collection, Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).</p> <p>22.حكايت مرد و زن, on fol. 195<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>23.حكايت مرد و زن جميل, on fol. 195<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>24.حكايت مرد مطرب و زن صاحب جمال, on fol. 196<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>25.حكايت ابوبكر ربّانى, on fol. 196<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>26.حكايت پادشاه و دختر سپه سالار, on fol. 196<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>27.حكايت مرد بنا و مهندسى و زن مستوره, on fol. 229<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>28.حكايت آن پادشاه زاده كه در خواب بر دخترى عاشق شد كه سه خال بر روى داشت, on fol. 243<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>29.حكايت خالد جوهرى (در شهربصره) و پسرش منصور و يوسف حجّام, on fol. 270<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>30.داستان آن پادشاه كه زن پرى زاد خواست و قصّۀ مار سياه و سفيد, on fol. 303<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>31.داستان سعد و سعيد و شمعون جهود و مرغ سعادت , on fol. 307<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>32.حكايت پادشاه دريا بار و صد پسر, on fol. 316<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>33.حكايت داستان شاهزاده و حصيرباف, on fol. 324<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>34.داستان ماهى گير و پسر, on fol. 326<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>35.حكايت پادشاه شهر بغداد, on fol. 332<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>36.داستان بازرگان بصره, on fol. 333<sup>a</sup>. (This and the following eight stories are in substance identical with the tales of the Bakhtyâr-nâma, comp. Sir W. Ouseley’s edition of it, London, 1801.)</p> <p>37.حكايت پادشاه حلب, on fol. 336<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>38.داستان مرد صابر, on fol. 339<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>39.حكايت پادشاه يمن, on fol. 344<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>40.حكايت پادشاه بلاد طبرستان, on fol. 347<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>41.حكايت پادشاه حبشه, on fol. 352<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>42.حكايت مرد جواهر شناس بغداد, on fol. 358<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>43.حكایت ابو تمام, on fol. 361<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>44.حكايت پادشاه حجاز, on fol. 364<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>45.حكايت منصور دمشقى و گنج یافتن, on fol. 367<sup>b</sup> (corresponding to the fourth story in the above-mentioned collection, Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).</p> <p>46.حكايت پادشاه و پسر عاقل, on fol. 374<sup>b</sup> (corresponding to the third story in the same).</p> <p>47.حكايت قاضى كه از خرمن گل بزير افتاد, on fol. 379<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>48.حكايت خشت زن و خليفۀ بغداد, on fol. 380<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>49.حكايت مرد ابطال در شهر كوفه, on fol. 384<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>50.حكايت مردى در عهد عضد الدوله در شهر بغداد, on fol. 390<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>51.A story without any heading, effaced in many places, dealing with an incident in ‘Alî’s Khilâfat, on fol. 393<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>52.حكايت تاجر مصرى, on fol. 395<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>The collection ends on fol. 399<sup>a</sup>; but the following pages down to fol. 401<sup>a</sup> contain an additional story, written by another hand in diagonal lines and dated A.H. 1055, the 2nd of Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1645, Dec. 20). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2541, ff. 401, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ, written by two principal hands, the one on ff. 1-172 and 201-228, the other on ff. 174-200, 229-268, and 271-399; a third and fourth hand, the latter especially approaching Shikasta, on ff. 173 and 269-270, ll. 18-20; size, 11 in. by 6<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 675] قصّۀ گل و صنوبر
<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Gul u Ṣanaubar.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 819 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 675 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>819</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Gul u Ṣanaubar ( قصّۀ گل و صنوبر).</p> <p>The story of Gul and Ṣanaubar (rose and pine tree) in Persian prose, beginning: راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار چنين روايت كنند كه در خاور زمين پادشاهى بود كه آنرا سمن شاه نعلپوش مگويند الخ.</p> <p>See the same story, but in an apparently shorter version and with different beginning, noticed in Rieu ii. p. 764<sup>b</sup>, found in a MS. written in the seventeenth century.</p> <p>A Hindûstânî adaptation of the same was published by Hidâyat ‘Alî of Islâmâbâd, 1847, at Calcutta, and translated into French by Garcin de Tassy, in ׳Revue orientale et americaine,׳ tom. vii, 1862, pp. 69-130; another Hindûstânî translation in verse was made by Aḥmad ‘Alî of Sarâwah, comp. Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la littér. Hindouie etc., 2nd ed., i. 157, and ibidem about the Dakhnî and Urdû-Bangâlî translations of the same story; a third poetical translation into Hindûstânî by Nem Ćand was published at Calcutta, 1827, and at Lucknow, 1845.</p> <p>No. 675, ff. 54, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 153] بهار دانش منظوم
<ul> <li><strong>Bahâr-i-dânish-i-manżûm.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 818 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 153 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>818</p> <p>Bahâr-i-dânish-i-manżûm ( بهار دانش منظوم).</p> <p>A poetical paraphrase of the Bahâr-i-dânish in mathnawî baits, incomplete at the end, by Ḥasan ‘Alî with the takhalluṣ ‘Izzat, who lived in the reign of Tipû Sulṭân (reigned in Maisûr or Mysore, A.H. 1197-1213=A.D. 1783-1799), to whom this work is dedicated.</p> <p>Beginning: بنام آنكه جان را داد در خاك</p> <p>زانجم ساخت روشن سقف افلاك</p> <p>No. 153, ff. 247, ll. 10-19 ; Shikasta, the first leaves supplied by a later hand, as it seems, ll. 9-12 ; size, 11<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 7<sup>7/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3432] بهار دانش
<ul> <li><strong>Bahâr-i-dânish.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 815 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 3432 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>815</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>No date. Quite modern copy.</p> <p>No. 3432, olim 8. J. 1, ff. 337, ll. 16; Shikasta; ff. 1, 2, 41, 334-337, and a few leaves in the middle written by other hands; size, 8<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>7/8 </sup>in.</p> <p> </p>
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