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[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.

[IO Islamic 3342] حديقه

<ul> <li>Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 922 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 3342 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 922 Another defective copy of the same. This copy is in the same hopeless confusion as the preceding one, is defective at the end, and injured in many places. On fol. 11a margin begins Bâb IX, on fol. 24a Bâb X, on fol. 51b Bâb II, on fol. 58a margin Bâb III, and on fol. 86b margin Bâb VIII; all the other headings are missing. No. 3342, olim 13. J. 23, ff. 136, 2 coll., each ll. 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; small Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¼ in. by 3¾ in.

[IO Islamic 3418] حديقه

<ul> <li>Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 921 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 3418 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 921 A defective copy of the same. This copy is defective both at the beginning and end, and is besides in quite a hopeless state of confusion as to the proper order of the leaves. They are misplaced or misbound, and as most of the catchwords are missing, it is not possible to set them right. The copy begins in the middle of a prose preface, which winds up with a fihrist of the ten bâbs, and appears to be that of Muḥammad bin ‘Alî al-Raffâ (alias Muḥammad bin ‘Alî Raḳḳâm, see Rieu ii. p. 550b), on fol. 1a. On fol. 3a begins Sanâ’î’s own preface: سپاس و ستايش الخ, but in an abridged form. The mathnawî itself begins on fol.6b; on fol. 37b appears the beginning of Bâb VIII, on fol. 50a that of Bâb IX, on fol. 86b that of Bâb X, on fol. 193a that of Bâb V, on fol. 246b that of Bâb VI, on fol. 250a that of Bâb VII, and on fol. 270b that of Bâb II. No other headings are to be found. Slight injuries here and there. No. 3418, olim 13. J. 22, ff. 300, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 6b; size, 63/4 in. by 41/8 in.

[IO Islamic 344] شرح حديقه

<ul> <li>Sharḥ-i-Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 923 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 344 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 923 Sharḥ-i-Ḥadîḳah (شرح حديقه). The revised and collated edition of Sanâ’î’s Ḥadîḳah with a commentary and marginal glosses by ‘Abd-allaṭîf bin ‘Abdallâh al-’Abbâsî, who is best known by his revised and annotated edition of Jalâl-aldîn Rûmî’s mathnawî (see Nos. 1088-1090 in this Cat.), his commentaries on the same poem, entitled لطائف المعنوى and مرآة المثنوى (see Nos. 1101 and 1102 in this Cat.), and a special glossary (see Nos. 1091- 1097 in this Cat.); he died A.H. 1048 or 1049 (A.D. 1638, 1639) in Shâhjahân’s reign. The present copy, which is the author’s autograph (comp. fol. 1a: حرّره و سوّده عبداللطيف بن عبدالله الخ), was finished by him the 20th of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1044 (A.D. 1634, Nov. 11), and represents an abridgment from a larger commentary of his, the لطائف الحدائق, from which also the glosses are taken (marked by لط). According to the dibâća he began the larger work A.H. 1040 and completed it A.H. 1042 (A.D. 1630-1633), supported by his friend Mîr ‘Imâd-aldîn Maḥmûd al-Hamadânî, with the takhalluṣ Ilâhî, the author of the well-known taddhkirah of Persian poets, the خزينۀ گنج (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 66 sq.). Sprenger’s remarks in the note on p. 558 of his Catal., that ‘Abd-allaṭif borrowed the copy, described there, in A.H. 1035 = A.D. 1625, 1626, transcribed, collated, and annotated it, can only refer therefore to the very beginning of the author’s critical labours on Sanâ’î’s text, from which afterwards the two exegetical works in question sprung. Contents: Sanâ’î’s preface, on fol. 1b, beginning: سپاس و ستايش الخ, introduced by a few lines from ‘Abd-allaṭif’s pen, on fol. 1a: اين ديباچه است كه صاحب طبع سليم الخ. Editor’s preface, styled ديباچۀ مختصر بر شرح ابيات (the meaning of which is explained on fol. 11a: ديباچۀ مختصر که از جملۀ چهارچمن شرح لطائف الحدائق بر چمن نخستين شرح ابيات تحرير يافته), on fol. 11b, beginning: بر ناقدان بصير و صيرفيان خبير رستۀ بازار ملك صورت و معنى مخفى و مستور نماند كه الخ. Short account of Ilâhî’s share in this work and two ta’rîkhs on the date of its completion by the same Ilâhî, on fol. 13b, beginning: چون پاکیزه میوۀ باغ اصطفا و كرامى گوهر کان اجتبا سامی نتیجۀ دودمان الخ. Beginning of Bâb I of the Ḥadîḳah, on fol. 17b: اى درون الخ, again introduced by a few lines from the editor’s pen, on fol. 17a, in which he enumerates his authorities, viz. the Ḳâmûs, the Ṣurâḥ, and other famous Arabic and Persian dictionaries, grammars, etc. (لغات عربى و فرهنگهاى معتمد فارسى و قواعد نحوى و قوانين صرفى). The first words of the commentary itself run thus: قول امام جعفرست رضى الله عنه هذه قبّة الناس و لله قبب كثيرةء كه كنايه از آسمانست الخ. Bâb II, on fol. 112b; III, on fol. 213a; IV, on fol. 234b; V, on fol. 241a; VI, on fol. 256a; VII, on fol. 298a; VIII, on fol. 310a; IX, on fol. 316a; X, on fol. 348a. The date of composition is given here as A.H. 535: پانصد و سی و چار رفته زعام پانصد و سی و پنج گشت تمام But the margin gives the various readings بيست و چار and بيست و پنج. The fatwâ, on fol. 472b, beginning as usual, introduced by the editor in this manner (comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 528):اين فصلى است كه بر سلطان اعظم مالك البرّ و البحر ابو الحارث بهرامشاه بن مسعود بن ابراهيم انار الله برهانه نوشته است الخ. No. 344, ff. 474, ll. 19; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 11b, and 17b; size, 10¾ in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 1224] حديقه

<ul> <li>Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 920 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 1224 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 920 The same. No date. Beginning as usual. Bâb I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 62a; III, on fol. 73a; IV, on fol. 128b; V, on fol. 138b; VI, on fol. 167b; VII, on fol. 196a; VIII, on fol. 223b; IX, not marked; X, on fol. 301b (this last bâb is extremely short in this copy). No. 1224, ff. 315, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 73/8 in. by 41/2 in.

[IO Islamic 132] ديوان معزّى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Mu’izzî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 913 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> 913 A very old, but much shorter copy of the same. This copy, which forms the first part of the six old Persian dîwâns (see Nos. 903 and 911 above), and is written A.H. 713 or 714 (A.D. 1313, 1314), contains only a select number of Mu’izzi’ poems, chiefly ḳaṣidas, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy. A short biographical notice at the top of fol. 1b.   No. 132, ff. 1-18, 6 coll., each ll. 40; Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b, a vignette on fol. 1a; miniature paintings throughout size, 153/4 in. by 11 in.

[IO Islamic 2235] حديقه

<ul> <li>Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 919 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 2235 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 919 Another complete copy of the Ḥadîḳah. This copy was finished the 26th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1077 (not ١٠٨٨, as is written at the end, since the transcriber distinctly says in words: سنۀ سبع و سبعين و الف)=A.D. 1667, April 21. Beginning as usual. Bâb I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 56a; III, on fol. 100a; IV, on fol. 120a; V, on fol. 145b; VI, on fol. 154b; VII, on fol. 166a; VIII, on fol. 183b (here called by mistake باب سادس instead of باب ثامن); IX, on fol. 190b; X, on fol. 203a. Date of composition, A.H. 525. Damaged by worms in many pages. College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2235, ff. 270, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, by two different hands, the first on ff. 1-152, the second on ff. 153-270; illuminated frontispiece; size, 121/8 in. by 7 in.

[IO Islamic 132] ديوان اديب صابر

<ul> <li>Diwân-i-Adîb Ṣâbir.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 911 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> 911 Diwân-i-Adîb Ṣâbir (ديوان اديب صابر). Lyrical poems by Jalâl-aldîn (as he is called here instead of the usual Shihâb-aldîn) Aḥmad bin Isma’il Adîb (or Sharaf-aladibbâ) Ṣâbir of Tirmidh, the panegyrist of Sulṭân Sanjar (A.H. 511-552=A.D. 1117-1157), who was drowned in the Oxus by order of Atsiz the Khwârizmshâh (A.H. 521-551=A.D. 1127-1156). The date of his death is, according to Taḳî Kâshî (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 11), A.H. 540 (A.D. 1145, 1146); other tadhkiras fix it in A.H. 544 or 546, see the Âtashkada, No. 728 (Bodleian Cat., col. 287); Butkhâna, No. 8 (ib., col. 197); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 10 (ib., col. 303); and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1291 (ib., col. 344); the Haft Iḳlîm, No. 573, give A.H. 547 (A.D. 1152, 1153), compare Rieu ii. p. 552; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 313-315, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 709 and foot-note, in which, as the most probable date of the poet’s death, A.H. 538 (A.D. 1143, 1144) is suggested according to Price, Chronological Retrospect, ii. p. 391. This dîwân contains ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, and begins on fol. 48b: جود ازين بركشيده ايوانست كى بره مشترى و كيوانست It forms the third part of the old collection of six Persian dîwâns (see No. 903 above), and is dated end of Muḥarram, A.H. 714 (A.D. 1314, May 16), by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî alkâshî.   No. 132, ff. 48-75, 6 coll., each ll. 40; striking old Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 48b, and a vignette on fol. 48a; funny miniature paintings throughout; size, 153/4 in. by 11 in.

[IO Islamic 2481] حديقه

<ul> <li>Ḥadîḳah.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 918 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 2481 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 918 Ḥadîḳah (حديقه). Another excellent and complete copy of Sanâ’i’s Ḥadîḳah, written at Iṣfahân, A.H. 1027 (A.D. 1618). Beginning as usual. Bâb I, on fol. 1b; II, on fol. 73b; III, on fol. 139b; IV, on fol. 152a; V, on fol. 158a; VI, on fol. 171a; VII, on fol. 208b; VIII, on fol. 220a; IX, on fol. 225b; X, on fol. 260b. Occasionally short glosses on the margin. No. 2481, ff. 395, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; the last four pages written by another hand; size, 9½ in. by 5½ in.

[IO Islamic 1424] ديوان مسعود سعد سلمان

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Mas’ûd-i-Sa’d-i-Salmân.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 908 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 1424 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 908 Dîwân-i-Mas’ûd-i-Sa’d-i-Salmân ( ديوان مسعود سعد سلمان). A slightly defective copy of the lyrical poems of Sa’d-aldaulah Mas’ûd bin Sa’d bin Salmân, who was born in Hamadân, according to ‘Aufî and the Haft Iḳlîm (No. 1032, col. 454 in this Cat.), where a bait of his in corroboration of this statement is quoted. Rieu, on the other hand (ii. p. 548), cites two other baits to show that his native place was Ghazna. He died probably A.H. 525 (A.D. 1131), according to others A.H. 515 (A.D. 1121). Besides his Persian dîwân he wrote two others, an Arabic and a Hindûstânî one, compare Bodleian Cat., No. 526; Butkhâna, No. 4 (ib., col. 197), and Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., col. 822); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 485, and Journal of the Asiat. Soc. Of Bengal, vol. xxii, p. 442 sq.; see also Journal Asiatique, 5e série, vol. ii (1853), p. 356 sq., and J. Aumer, p. 8. Contents: Ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, and ghazals, all mixed together, defective in the beginning. The first bait, on fol. 1a, runs thus: در كان زشرم چشمه ياقوت سرخ شد وين خرده ايست نيكو خاطر بدين گمار Rubâ’îs, on fol. 245a, beginning: چون مار فلك بست بافسون مارا وز خانۀ خود كشيد بيرون مارا That this really Mas’ûd’s dîwân and not Khâḳâni’s, as is wrongly stated on the fly-leaf, is proved by the frequent occurrence of the takhalluṣ, for instance, on fol. 9b, l. 6; fol. 76b, l. 11; fol. 117b, l. 8; fol. 195b, l. 1, etc. Some pages are a little injured. No date. No. 1424, ff. 282, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 111/8 in. by 63/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1991] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnawîs.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 915 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 1991 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 915 Another defective copy of three mathnawîs by Sanâ’î. Contents: 1.Ḥadîḳah, with the preface of the poet himself. Beginning of this preface (in which the poet’s name appears on fol. 2b, ll. 17 and 18: روزى من كه مجدود آدم سنائی ام), on fol.1b: سپاس و ستایش مبدعى است كه بسخن پاك كلمۀ كن سخندان و سخنگوى را ابداع كرد الخ. It is styled in the colophon خطبۀ حديقۀ حكيم سنائى. Beginning of Book I of the mathnawî itself, on fol. 11b: اى درون پرور الخ ; Book II, on fol. 67b; III, on fol. 122b; IV, on fol. 132a; V, on fol. 136b (between ff. 141b and 142a one single bait is missing, indicated by the catchword: خويشتن بين الخ, corresponding to No. 2481 (918 in this Cat.), fol. 146b, l.7); VI, on ff. 147-151 and 296-311b (the leaves are misplaced and there is a considerable lacuna between ff. 151 and 296, corresponding to No.2481, fol. 177a, l. 6-fol. 188b, l. 1); VII, on ff. 311b-315 and 152-155b (likewise incomplete, the lacuna between ff. 315 and 152 comprising fol. 214a, l. 11-fol. 215b, l. 2 in No. 2481); VIII, on fol. 155b; IX, on fol. 159b; X, on fol. 187a. On fol. 294a there is added (by another hand in Shikasta) the famous fatwâ of the Khalîf’s court at Baghdâd, vindicating Sanâ’i’s orthodoxy (see Bodleian Cat., No. 528, col. 464), and beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين و الصلوة على خير خلقة محمّد و آله اجمعين در بعضى آثار است كه دو چيز در عمر الخ. Marginal glosses on the first seventy-seven leaves; on fol. 1a the author’s name is misspelt as ثنائى. 2.’Ishḳnâma, beginning, on fol. 332b: عشق مرغ الخ. 3.’Aḳlnâma, beginning, on fol. 348b: ابتدا ميكنم الخ. This part was transcribed at the end of Muḥarram, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651, Jan. 23); in the colophon of the preface of the Ḥadîḳah appears as date the 2nd of Muḥarram, A.H. 1054 (which seems, however, a mere alteration of the original 1061). Ff. 316-331 do not belong to any of these three mathnawîs of Sanâ’î, but contain a portion of the Bâgh-i-Iram (باغ ارم), also called Bahrâm and Bihrûz (بهرام و بهروز), by Maulânâ Kamâl-aldin Bannâ’î, with the takhalluṣ Ḥâlî, who died A.H. 918 (A.D. 1512, 1513), see Bodleian Cat., No. 987; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 372; Rieu i. p. 351b. No. 1991, ff. 362, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispieces on fol. 1b and 11b; size, 91/8 in. by 45/8 in.

[IO Islamic 360] ديوان معزّى

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Mu’izzî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 912 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 360 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 912 Dîwân-i-Mu’izzî (ديوان معزّى). The complete lyrical poems of Amir Abû ‘Abdallâh, or Abûbakr Mu’izzî, the panegyrist of Sulṭân Malikshâh and king of poets at Sanjar’s court. His original name was Muḥammad bin ‘Abd-almalik, and his father,’Abd-almalik Burhânî, had been a court-poet of Alp Arslân Saljûḳî, Malikshah’s father and predecessor (A.H. 455-465=A.D. 1063-1072); three places compete for the honour of being his native town, viz. Nishâpûr (see Butkhâna, No. 9, in Bodleian Cat., col. 198 ; Khazâna-i-’âmirah, ib., col. 259 ; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 2247, ib., col. 370; Khushgû’s Safinah, Haft Iḳlim, No. 747, and the short biographical notice prefixed to the following copy), Nasâ (in Daulatshâh and the tadhkirah described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 479, No. 132), and Samarḳand (in Taḳî Kâshî, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 16, No. 12, and Âtashkada, No. 744 in Bodleian Cat., col. p. 287). He was killed by a stray arrow from Sanjar’s bow, A.H. 542 (A.D. 1147, 1148). Other copies of his dîwân are described in Rieu ii. p. 552b; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 501 and 502, and G. Flügel i. p. 497; comp. also the Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 240 (Bodleian Cat., col. 310), and the Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., col. 822). This dîwân consists chiefly of ḳaṣidas, intermixed with some tarkibbands, a few ḳiṭ’as, ghazals, and rubâ’îs. Beginning: زمشرق تا حد مغرب شناسد هر كه دين دارد كه دين رونق بتاييد امير المؤمنين دارد An additional series of rubâ’îs, on fol. 367a, beginning: اى رايتو بر كشيده بر ايوان سر گردونت نهاده بر خط پيمان سر Dated the 1st of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1637, April 26). No. 360, ff. 379. 2 coll., each ll. 21; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; much worm-eaten and damaged in the first half, which contains many various readings and marginal glosses; illuminated frontispiece; size, 103/8 in. by 6 in.