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[IO Islamic 1191] شاه و گدا
<ul> <li><strong>Shâh-u-Gadâ.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1429 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 1191 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1429</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy which, according to a note on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, was finished the 4th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1735, May 27), is a little incomplete at the end; the last bait appearing here corresponds to fol. 52<sup>b</sup>, l. 10, in No. 2092 (1426 in this Cat.).</p> <p>No. 1191, ff. 46, 2 coll., each ll. 13-18: Nasta’lîḳ, written by two different hands (on ff. 1-21 and 22-46 respectively); size, 8<sup>3/4 </sup>in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1070] شاه و گدا
<ul> <li><strong>Shâh-u-Gadâ.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1428 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 1070 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1428</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>اى وجود تو اصل هر موجود</p> <p>هستى وبودى و خواهى بود</p> <p>No. 1070, ff. 44, 2 coll., each ll. 13-16, with an occasional margin-column on several pages; Nasta’lîḳ, written by different hands, the first leaves in a very careless way; size, 7½ in. by 4 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3496] شاه و گدا
<ul> <li><strong>Shâh-u-Gadâ.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1427 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3496 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1427</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>ای وجود تو اصل هر موجودی</p> <p>هستی و بودی و تو خواهی بود</p> <p>According to the colophon in the matn of this copy (see No. 743 in this Cat.). the copy was made in Jumâdâ I, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, Jan., Feb.).</p> <p>No. 3496, olim 8. J. 26, margin-column, ff. 199<sup>b</sup>-239<sup>b</sup>, ll. 32.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2092] شاه و گدا
<ul> <li><strong>Shâh-u-Gadâ.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1426 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 2092 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1426</p> <p>Shâh u Gadâ (شاه و گدا).</p> <p>King and beggar, also styled شاه و درويش, king and dervish, a mystical mathnawî by the same Hilâli, beginning:</p> <p>اى وجود تو اصل هر موجود</p> <p>هستى وبودۀ و خواهى بود</p> <p>It has been translated into German verse by H. Ethé (Morgenländischo Studien, Leipzig, 1870, pp. 197-282); see also Ethé, ‘Ueber persische Tenzonen,’ in ‘Abhandlungen des fimften internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses,’ Berlin, 1882, vol. ii. pp. 130-135.</p> <p>Other copies are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1022-1025; Rieu ii. p. 656; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat. pp. 36, No. 1; 711, no. 6, and 895; a fragment of the same poem, ib. p. 2, No. 6; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 427; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 122; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 389; J. Aumer, p. 35.</p> <p>This copy is dated the 20th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1036 (A.D. 1626, Oct. 11); some extracts from Persian poets on the fly-leaves.</p> <p>No. 2092, ff. 53, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; a little worm-eaten; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1082] ديوان هلالى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hilâlî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1424 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 1082 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1424</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy, considerably smaller than the preceding one, also contains alphabetical ghazals, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end; the latter, however, are incomplete. Beginning the same: اى نور خدا الخ .</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 1082, ff. 69, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ, the first page supplied later; size, 8<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2834] ديوان هلالى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hilâlî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1425 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 2834 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1425</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy, still smaller than the preceding one, is defective at the beginning. It opens with the following ghazal, rhyming in ا:</p> <p>نمى توان بجفا قطع دوستدارئ ما</p> <p>كه از جفاى تو بيش است با تو يارئ ما</p> <p>The second ghazal corresponds to fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, l.3 ab infra in the preceding copy.</p> <p>After the alphabetical ghazals there follow, on ff. 107<sup>a</sup>-110<sup>a</sup>, three ḳiṭ’as and a series of rubâ’îs. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2834, ff. 52-110, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 4 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1198] ديوان هلالى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hilâlî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1423 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 1198 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>Hilâlî (Nos. 1423 -1431).</p> <p>1423</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Hilâlî (ديوان هلالى).</p> <p>Lyrical poems of Maulânâ Badr-aldîn Hilâlî of Astarâbâd, who was put to death by order of ‘Abdallâhkhân (so in the Âtashkada and Sprenger, correctly ‘Ubaid-allâhkhân) Uzbeg at Harât, A.H. 939 (A.D. 1532, 1533); this date is given by the poet’s intimate friend Sâm Mirzâ, and in the Âtashkada, No. 81 (col. 265 in the Bodleian Cat.), comp. also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1170 (col. 466 in this Cat.). Almost all the other tadhkiras fix Hilâli’s death in A.H. 936 (A.D. 1529, 1530); see, for instance, Safînah, No. 60 (col. 213 in the Bodelian Cat.); Khazâna-i-’âmirah, No. 131 (ib. col. 260); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 77 (ib. col. 301), etc.; and comp. Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 126, l. 4 ab infra. Other copies are described in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1019-1021; Rieu ii. p. 656; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 426; W. Pertsch, Berlin., pp. 147, No. 3, and 701, No. 38; G. Flügel i. pp. 563, 578, and 579; J. Aumer, p. 35.</p> <p>Lithographed, Lucknow, A.H. 1263 and 1281; Cawnpore, A.H. 1281.</p> <p>Hilâli’s dîwân consists of ghazals, arranged alphabetically, and a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end.</p> <p>Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى نور خدا در نظر از روى تو ما را</p> <p>بگذار كه در روى تو بينيم خدارا</p> <p>Beginning of the ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 91<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى سيه نامه گر براى نجات</p> <p>حرف از باب رحمتش طلبى</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 1198, ff. 94, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8½ in. by 4½ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 550] كلّيّات اهلى شيرازى
<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyyât-i-Ahlî-Shîrâzî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1432 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 550 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1432</p> <p>Kulliyyât-i-Ahlî Shîrâzî (كلّيّات اهلى شيرازى).</p> <p>An extremely valuable MS., the <em>original copy</em> of the poetical works of Maulânâ Ahlî of Shîrâz, who died in his native town, A.H. 942 (A.D. 1535, 1536), written by the poet himself for his patron Sulṭân Isma’il Ṣafawî, A.H. 920 (A.D. 1514), see the colophon: قد كتبه الفقير المتخلّص بالاهلى هذه الكلّيّات للسّلطان اسمعيل الصّفوى فى سنة عشرين و تسع مائة هجرى’, and a second one of the same contents on the margin. Ahlî Shîrâzî must not be confounded with Ahlî Tûrânî, a pupil of Jâmî, who died A.H. 902 (A.D. 1496, 1497), see Safînah, No. 4 (col. 212 in the Bodleian Cat.), or Ahli Khurâsânî, who died A.H. 934 (A.D. 1527, 1528). See A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 319 and 320, or Ahli of Îrân, who flourished under Ṭahmâsp, see Safînah, No. 75 (col. 214 in the Bodleian Cat.). On Ahlî Shirâzî and copies of his poems comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1027 and 1028, and col. 769; Rieu ii. p. 657 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 320 sq.; G. Flügel i. pp. 585-587; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 391; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 57 (No. 2); Bland, Century of Persian Ghazals, No. 7; and Erdmann in Zeitschrift der D.M.G. xv. pp. 775-785; see also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 213 (col. 394 in this Cat.), and Âtashkada, No. 644 (col. 284 in the Bodleian Cat.), the only tadhkirah which gives a wrong date for the poet’s death, viz., A.H. 933 (A.D. 1526, 1527).</p> <p>The present autograph contains:</p> <p>I.<em>Centre-columns</em>:</p> <p>1.Ḳaṣâ’id-i-maṣnû’ (قصائد مصنوع), three highly artificial ḳaṣîdas in honour of Mîr ‘Alîshîr, Sulṭân Isma’îl Ṣafawî, and Sulṭân Ya’ḳûb Âḳ-ḳoyunlû (who died A.H. 896=A.D. 1491), or rather, as Rieu states, Ya’ḳûb’s brother, Yûsufshâh, respectively; they are very close imitations of the artificial ḳaṣîdah of Salmân of Sâwa, described in detail in No. 1241 above; see for a full explanation of the manner of taushîḥ, practiced in these three ḳaṣîdas, Bodleian Cat., coll. 652 and 653. Each of the three ḳaṣîdas is preceded by a dibâća in prose.</p> <p>Beginning of the first dibâća, on fol. 3<sup>b</sup>: بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم ‘حمدى از حدّ افزون و سپاسى از قياس بيرون سزاوار صانع بيچون الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the first ḳaṣîdah (مصنوع قصيدۀ اولى ), on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>نسيم كاكل مشكين كراست چون تو نگار</p> <p>In the Bodleian copies) شميم سنبل پر چین کجاست</p> <p>مشك تتار (again كراست</p> <p>Beginning of the second dîbâća (the third in the Bodleian copies), on fol. 19<sup>a</sup>: حمد و سپاس بی قیاس صانعی را که فهرست قصیدۀ موجودات و دیباچۀ جریده الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the second ḳaṣîdah (مصنوع قصيدۀ ثانى , the third in the Bodleian copies), on fol. 21<sup>a</sup>:</p> <p>هواى گلشن کویت نسیم باد بهار</p> <p>گدای خرمن مویت شمیم مشک تتار</p> <p>Beginning of the third dibâća (the second in the Bodleian copies), on fol. 35<sup>b</sup>: بعد از حمد بيحدّ و سپاس بيقياس مر حضرت عزّت را جلّت نعماؤه و عظمت كبرياؤه الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the third ḳaṣîdah ( مصنوع قصيدۀ ثالث , the second in the Bodleian copies), on fol. 36<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>هواى جنّت كويت نسيم عنبر بار</p> <p>فداى نكهت مويت شميم مشك تتار</p> <p>2.Ḳaṣidas and tarjî’bands, without any order, beginning, on fol. 50<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>الهى بسر دفتر حكمت الله – بنى آدم آئينۀ قدرت الله</p> <p>3.Sâḳînâma (ساقى نامه), a series of rubâ’îs, with a dibâća in prose; beginning of the dibâća, on fol. 187<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>بعد از حمد و ثناى جان آفرين و درود بر روان سيّد المرسلين وآله الطّيّبين الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the Sâḳînâma itself, on fol. 188<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>ساقى قدحى كه كارسازست خدا</p> <p>وز رحمت خود بنده نوازست خدا</p> <p>4.Risâla-i-muḳaṭṭa’ât (رسالۀ مقطّعات), a series of ḳiṭ’as and ta’rikhât, beginning, on fol. 203<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى دل زخود بمير كه گردى خلاص از آنك</p> <p>تا زندۀ مقيّد اين دام ماندۀ</p> <p>5.Rubâ’iyyât-i-ganjifa (رباعيّات گنجفه), another series of rubâ’îs, written for a pack of cards, with a dîbâća in prose; beginning of the dîbâća, on fol. 229<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>بسم الله تيمّنا بذكره الاعلى پوشیده نماند بر ارباب صورت و معنی که این بندۀ کم بضاعت اهلی الشّيرازى روزى برسم خدمت در صحبت صاحبدلان بود و يكى از اجلّۀ آن قوم گنجفۀ در کمال تكلّف ترتیب داده بود الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the first rubâ’î, on fol. 231<sup>a</sup>:</p> <p>اى سرو سهى خاك رهت وقت خرام</p> <p>كى صورت مه بود چو حسن تو تمام</p> <p>II. <em>Margin-columns</em>:</p> <p>6.Siḥr-i-ḥalâl (سحر حلال), or lawful sorcery, the wonderful mathnawî which has a double rhyme, and can be read in two different metres, a clever combination of the two artifices, practiced separately in Kâtibi’s مجمع البحرين and ده باب or تجنيسات (see above, Nos. 1290-1292); it contains the love-story of prince Jam princess Gul, and has a short dibâća in prose.</p> <p>Beginning of the dibâća, on fol. 4<sup>b</sup>: حمد نا محدود و شکر نا معدود سزاوار صانعيست كه بيك امر كن نسخۀ دو کون پرداخت الخ.</p> <p>Beginning of the mathnawî, on fol. 5<sup>a</sup>:</p> <p>اى همه عالم بر تو بى شكوه</p> <p>رفعت خاك در تو پیش کوه</p> <p>At the end, on fol. 17<sup>a</sup>, a ghazal.</p> <p>7.Sham’ n Parwâna (شمع و پروانه), or candle and moth, another mathnawî, composed A.H. 894 (A.D. 1489), and dedicated to Sulṭân Ya’ḳûb Âḳ-ḳoyunlû; it begins, on fol. 17<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>بنام آنكه مارا از عنايت – دهد پروانۀ شمع هدايت</p> <p>8.Short poems, partly in the form of ḳaṣîdas, partly in that of mathnawîs; the first, on fol. 40<sup>a</sup>, is styled كتاب خيمۀ همايون , and begins:</p> <p>اى همايون خيمه يا رب روضۀ از جنّت است</p> <p>يا نمودارى مگر از كارگاه قدرت است</p> <p>9. A series of riddles, on the names of Muḥammad and the twelve Imâms( معمّا باسم دوازده امام ابتدا (صلوة بر محمّد, on fol.44<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>آب حيوان خوش بود آن لعل لب زان خوشتر است</p> <p>در صفا آن لعل فاش از جوهر جان خوشتر است</p> <p>10.Kitâb-i-ghazaliyyât (كتاب غزليّات), the book of ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 50<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى حيرت صفات تو بند زبان ما</p> <p>انگشت حيرتست زبان در دهان ما</p> <p>11.Rubâ’iyyât (رباعيّات), a third series of rubâ’îs beginning, on fol. 257<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>درد تو كشيم و از دوا محروميم</p> <p>خلقى همه محرمند و ما محروميم</p> <p>This copy was purchased for 300 rupees.</p> <p>No. 550, ff. 277, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 8-10, and 2 margin-coll., each ll. 24; Nasta’lîḳ; this copy is throughout illuminated and adorned in the most magnificent manner; splendid vignettes in gold, red, blue, and other colours, on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>, 2<sup>a</sup>, 3<sup>b</sup>, and 4<sup>a</sup>; two large pictures on ff. 2<sup>b</sup> and 3<sup>a</sup>; the first 4 centre-columns written on gilt ground; all the other pages highly embellished with beautiful margin-corners, ornamental headings, miniature paintings, etc.; rich Eastern binding with pictures on the inner sides; size, 14 in. by 9¼ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 888] خمسۀ قاسمی
<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa-i-Ḳâsimî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1437 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 888 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1437</p> <p>Khamsa-i-Ḳâsimî (خمسۀ قاسمی).</p> <p>The five epic poems of Mirzâ Muḥammad Ḳâsim alḥusainî of Gûnâbâd (or Junâbid) in Khurâsân, with the takhalluṣ Ḳâsimi, who flourished under Shâh Ṭahmâsp (A.H. 930-984= A.D. 1524-1576); the date of his death is not absolutely fixed; as he is spoken of as still alive in the Nafâ’is-almaâthir (compiled between A.H. 973 and 979 = A.D. 1565 – 1571, 1572, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 52), he cannot have died before A.H. 979, comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 513-517; Rieu ii. pp. 660 and 661; G. Flügel i. pp. 602 and 603; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 44, 83, and 534-535; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, pp. 387 and 388; Dorn, Das Asiatische Museum, pp. 375; Mohl, Le Livre des Rois, vol. i. preface, p. lxxvii, note; Notices et Extraits iv. p. 297; Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 13, No. 7409; see also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 809 (coll. 436 and 437 in this Cat.); Safînah, No. 80 (col. 214 in the Bodleian Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 163 (ib. col. 268); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 58 (ib. col. 300), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 216 (ib. col. 309).</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>A short preface in prose, by the author himself, beginning, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>: بعد از حمد و سپاس الهى و درود بى قياس بر حضرت رسالت پناهى صلّى الله عليه و آله نموده مى آيد الخ .</p> <p>The <em>five</em> mathnawîs in the following order:</p> <p>1.Shâhnâma or Shahnâma (شاهنامه or شهنامه), also styled اسمعيل نامه ; شاهنامۀ اسمعيل (so in No. 515 of the Bodleian Cat.); شاهنشاه نامه (so in Taḳî Kâshî, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 44, No. 609, and in No. 514 of the Bodleian Cat.); شاهانشاه نامه (so in Ilâhî, ib. p. 83). It contains a poetical history of Shâh Isma’îl Ṣafawî, and was completed A.H. 940 (A.D. 1533, 1534), see Rieu ii. p. 661<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 3<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>خداوند بيچون خدائى تراست</p> <p>بر اقليم جان پادشائى تراست</p> <p>The continuation or second daftar of this epopee, containing the poetical history of the greater part of Shâh Ṭahmâsp’s reign, seems to be really extant only in one copy of the British Museum Collection (see Rieu ii. p. 661<sup>b</sup>). According to Ilâhî, loc. cit., both parts of this epopee, together with the شاهرخ نامه (No. 5 below), formed one great historical mathnawî in three كتاب .</p> <p>2.Lailâ u Majnûn (ليلى و مجنون), beginning, on fol. 58<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى نامه بنام تو مسجّل – مجنون ره تو عقل اوّل</p> <p>3.Gûi u Ćaugân (گوی و چوگان), or ‘the ball and the bat,’ also styled Kârnâma (كارنامه), beginning, on fol. 92<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اين نامه كه هست حسب حالى</p> <p>طغراش بنام ذو الجلالى</p> <p>4.Khusrau u Shîrîn ( خسرو و شيرين), composed A.H. 950 (A.D. 1543, 1544), beginning, on fol. 106<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>الهى قاسمى را ديده ور ساز</p> <p>بروى گلرخانش کن نظر باز</p> <p>5.Shâhrukhnâma (شاهرخ نامه), a poetical history of Sulṭân Shâhrukh (A.H. 807-850 = A.D. 1405-1447), composed in the same year, A.H. 950, but <em>after</em> the preceding mathnawî, since both that and Lailâ and Majnûn are mentioned as previous poetical achievements by the author in the preface of this work.</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 146<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>الهى بحق پادشائى تراست</p> <p>همه بنده ايم و خدائى تراست</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 888, ff. 202, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of each mathnawî; miniature paintings on ff. 6<sup>b</sup>, 16<sup>a</sup>, 18<sup>b</sup>, 19<sup>a</sup>, 22<sup>b</sup>, 25<sup>a</sup>, 28<sup>a</sup>, 29<sup>b</sup>, 34<sup>a</sup>, 35<sup>b</sup>, 37<sup>a</sup>, 38<sup>b</sup>, 40<sup>b</sup>, 42<sup>a</sup>, 43<sup>b</sup>, 51<sup>b</sup>, 65<sup>b</sup>, 68<sup>a</sup>, 71<sup>a</sup>, 73<sup>b</sup>, 76<sup>b</sup>, 78<sup>b</sup>, 79<sup>b</sup>, 81<sup>a</sup>, 98<sup>a</sup>, 109<sup>b</sup>, 115<sup>b</sup>, 124<sup>b</sup>, 131<sup>b</sup>, 133<sup>b</sup>, 135<sup>b</sup>, 140<sup>b</sup>, 159<sup>b</sup>, 162<sup>a</sup>, 164<sup>b</sup>, 166<sup>a</sup>, 168<sup>a</sup>, 169<sup>b</sup>, 173<sup>a</sup>, 175<sup>a</sup>, 177<sup>a</sup>, 178<sup>b</sup>, 186<sup>a</sup>, 193<sup>a</sup>, 194<sup>b</sup>, and 197<sup>a</sup>; size, 9½ in. by 6¾ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 328] ديوان هجرى رازى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hijrî Râzî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1440 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 328 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1440</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Hijrî Râzî ( ديوان هجرى رازى).</p> <p>Lyrical poems of Khwâjah Muḥammad Sharîf (according to the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, Yûsuf) Hijrî of Rai, who was first wazîr of Khurâsân, later on under Shâh Ṭahmâsp, of Yazd and Abarḳûh, and finally of Iṣfahân; he was a nephew of the poet Umîdî (see Haft Iḳlîm, Nos. 1112 and 1114, col. 461 in this Cat.), and the father both of Khwâjah Ghiyâth-aldîn Muḥammad (better known as I’timâd-aldaulah, wazir of the emperor Jahângîr and father of Jahângîr’s wife, Nûrjahân) and of the poet Muḥammad Ṭâhir Waṣlî (ib. Nos. 1115 and 1116). Hijrî died A.H. 984 (A.D. 1576, 1577), comp. besides the Haft Iḳlim, loc. cit., Taḳî Kâshî, No. 573 (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 42); Nafâ’is-almaâthir (ib. p. 55, l. 3) ; Ilâhî (ib. p. 87, l. 8 ab infra); Safinah, No. 190 (col. 217 in the Bodleian Cat.); Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3051 (ib. col. 394), and Rieu i. p. 335<sup>b</sup>. According to the Âtashkada, No. 461 (col. 279 in the Bodleian Cat.), the poet died A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574, 1575) in Yazd.</p> <p>This dîwân contains:</p> <p>Haftband (هفت بند) in praise of ‘Alî, an imitation of the Haftband of Mullâ Ḥasan Kâshî (see on this poem, likewise in praise of ‘Alî, in seven stanzas, A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 457), beginning, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>السّلام اى پرتو مهرت چراغ راه دين</p> <p>آفتاب مطلع ايمان امير المؤمنين</p> <p>This peculiar kind of tarji’ is followed, on fol. 4<sup>b</sup>, by other tarji’bands, ḳaṣîdas, and ḳiṭ’as.</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning, on fol. 18<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>اى دُر فشان بشكر عطايت زمان ما</p> <p>درجيست پر ز گوهر شکرت دهان ما</p> <p>Rubâ’îs and fards, beginning, on fol. 56<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>زاهد كه نماز وروزه اش عادت و خوست</p> <p>ميخواره كه دستگیر او جام و سبوست</p> <p>Dated the 24th of Shawwâl, A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1659, July 15), by ‘Abd-alraḳîb.</p> <p>No. 328, ff. 1-60, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10½ in. by 5¾ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1822] ديوان سقّا
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Saḳḳâ.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1436 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 1822 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1436</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Saḳḳâ (ديوان سقّا).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Darwîsh Bahrâm Saḳḳâ of Bukhârâ (also called Ćaghatâ’î on account of his Turkish extraction), who died on his way to Sarândib or Ceylon, A.H. 962 (A.D. 1554, 1555), see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 59. ll. 18-21; 78, ll. 4-6; 559 and 560; comp. also Safînah, No. 221 (col. 218 in the Bodleian Cat.), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 645, No. 157.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first three; beginning of the initial ghazal, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup> (as in No. 365 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 560):</p> <p>پا ز سر كرده براه طلبش حيرانم</p> <p>كه من قطره كجا و هوس عمّانم</p> <p>Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>الا يا ايّها السّاقى بده آن بادۀ حمرا الخ .</p> <p>Musaddasât, mukhammasât, ḳiṭ’as, a series of rubâ’îs, arranged alphabetically, and fards, on fol. 104<sup>a</sup>, beginning:السّلام اى روضه ات بر اهل دين دار السّلام الخ.</p> <p>Tarji’bands, ḳaṣîdas, and mathnawîs, on fol. 167<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>The last thirty leaves are damaged at the bottom; the right order of ff. 88-145 is: 88, 105-144, 89-103, 104, 145. There appear two dates, on fol. 167<sup>b</sup> and at the end, viz. 19th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1058 (A.D. 1648, May 13), and 2nd of Jumâdâ-althânî in the same year (A.D. 1648, June 24); the name of the copyist is Shaikh Manṣûr, who transcribed this MS. at Bardawân (بردوان ).</p> <p>No. 1822, ff. 221, 2 coll., each ll. 18-19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p><br> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2140] خمسۀ قاسمی
<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa-i-Ḳâsimî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1438 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 2140 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1438</p> <p>Another copy of Ḳâsimî’s Shâhnâma.</p> <p>No date; some pages injured; beginning as in the preceding copy. The transcriber was Muḥammad alḳiwâm of Shîrâz. College of Fort William, 1825.</p> <p>No. 2140, ff. 216, 2, centre-coll., each ll. 9, with a third on the margin of ff. 196-216, ll. 18; the first two pages richly illuminated, but rather effaced, like the text of the first baits; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 467] ديوان رهائى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Rahâ’î</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1439 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 467 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1439</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Rahâ’î ( ديوان رهائى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Shaikh Sa’d-aldîn Rahâ’î of Khwâf (or, as the Muntakhab-alash’âr, No. 258, col. 245 in the Bodleian Cat., states, of Harât), a descendant of the famous saint Zain-aldin Khwâfî (who died in the beginning of Shawwâl, A.H. 838=A.D. 1435, last of April, see Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, English translation, vol. i. p. 592 and note; another Zain-aldîn Khwâfî was the oldest translator of Bâbar’s memoirs, and died A.H. 940=A.D. 1533, 1534, see No. 215 in this Cat.); he came to India under Akbar and spent his life in the emperor’s service; he was still alive A.H. 983 (A.D. 1575, 1576), as the chronogram at the end of this copy</p> <p>سال اتمام آن اگر جوئى – رشتۀ جان چاک الخ</p> <p>(the end of the second hemistich is injured) proves; consequently the date of his death, as given in the Nafâ’is-almaâthir and in Badâ’ûnî (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 49, l. 3 ab infra, and p. 58, l. 7 ab infra), must needs be wrong; comp. on this poet, Bodleian Cat., No. 1037 (a much fuller collection of poetical works by Rahâ’î); A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 545; Safînah, No. 398 (col. 225 in the Bodleian Cat., where he is said to have written an imitation of Niżâmî’s Khamsah); Âtashkada, No. 173 (ib. col. 268), and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 833 (ib. col. 333); see also Blochmann, Â’in-i-Akbarî, vol. i. p. 592.</p> <p>This copy, in which the proper order of leaves is as follows: ff. 1, 113-119, 2, 4, 6, 5, 3, 7-17, 25, 19-24, 18, 26-112, 120, contains:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order (except a few poems on the first pages), on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اوّليّت نيست كس را جز خدا – زانست نامش اوّل هر ابتدا</p> <p>Tarjî’ât, on fol. 86<sup>b</sup>, beginning: اى وجود تو الخ.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’is, on fol. 97<sup>a</sup>, beginning: هر كه با خلق دوستى دارد الخ.</p> <p>No date. Slight injuries in several pages.</p> <p>No. 467, ff. 120, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p><br> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2185] ديوان ثنائى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1450 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 2185 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1450</p> <p>Another copy of Thanâ’î’a dîwân.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning as in the preceding copy:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, interspersed with a few rubâ’îs, ḳiṭ’as, and fards, on fol. 83<sup>a</sup>, likewise beginning as in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ’as, in alphabetical order, on fol. 102<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>شهريارا بخاك درگه تو – كه خدايش نيافريد سما</p> <p>Rubâ’îs, in two alphabetical collections, the second of which begins, on fol. 116<sup>a</sup>, with an inserted fard, rhyming in د. Beginning of the initial rubâ’î of the first collection, on fol. 106<sup>a</sup>:</p> <p>فرياد كه ديده غرق خون كرد مرا</p> <p>دل از ره عقل و دين برون كرد مرا</p> <p>No date. The takhalluṣ is always omitted in the ghazals here, and the dîwân is wrongly ascribed to سنائى, on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 2185, ff. 119, 2 coll., each ll. 15; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 206] ديوان ثنائى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1449 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 206 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1449</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Thanâ’î (ديوان ثنائى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of Khwâjah Ḥusain Thanâ’î of Mashhad, who came to India under Akbar, was the teacher and friend of Faiḍî, and died in the same year as Muḥtasham, viz. A.H. 996 (A.D. 1588), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1045-1049; A. Sprenger, Catal,. pp. 43, 57, 120, and 578; Blochmann, Â’în-i-Akbarî, p. 563, note 2 (where, however, the wrong date, A.H. 1000, is given for the poet’s death), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 57, No. 4; 722, No. 2, and 899-900; see also Safinah, No. 271 (col. 220 in the Bodleian Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 204 (ib. col. 269); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 16 (ib. col. 296), and Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 59 (ib. col. 304).</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣîdas, in alphabetical order, on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>در روش حسن و ناز هست بسى خوش نما</p> <p>(in other copies جفا ) غمزه بطرزستم عشوه برنگ حيا</p> <p>Ghazals, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 105<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>راندى بخشم از بر خود اى پسر مرا</p> <p>صد خار حسرتست ازين در جگر مرا</p> <p>Ḳiṭ’as, with a few rubâ’îs at the end, on fol. 123<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>در بوستان سراى تو امّيد و بيم را</p> <p>مانند گل زبرگ و نوا خانه خرّمست</p> <p>On ff. 1-6 there is written by another hand a story of ‘Umar bin Mas’ûd, the wazîr of the Khalif Ma’mûn (A.H. 198-218=A.D. 813-833), told by himself, and not connected with this dîwân at all. Beginning of the story:</p> <p>عمر ابن مسعود گوید در ابتدای روزگار وزیر مأمون بودم الخ.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 206, ff. 1-130, 2 coll., each ll. 11-14; the first six leaves written in Shikasta âmîz, the rest in Nasta’lîḳ by another hand; ff. 7-9 are left blank; size, 9½ in. by 5½ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1945] غزليّات محتشم
<ul> <li><strong>Ghazaliyyât</strong><strong>-i-Muḥtasham.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1448 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 1945 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1448</p> <p>Ghazaliyyât-i-Muḥtasham ( غزليّات محتشم).</p> <p>Another copy of Muḥtasham’s ghazals, in alphabetical order, beginning in the same way as the <em>first</em> series in the preceding copy:اى گوهر نام تو الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 27th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1051 (A.D. 1641, June 7).</p> <p>No. 1945, margin-column, ff. 70<sup>a</sup>-129<sup>a</sup>, ll. 32-36; careless Nasta’lîḳ.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2601] ديوان محتشم
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Muḥtasham.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1447 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 2601 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1447</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Muḥtasham (ديوان محتشم).</p> <p>A defective copy of the complete lyrical poems of Maulânâ Muḥtasham Kâshî, the teacher and friend of Taḳî-aldîn Kâshî, the author of the famous tadhkirah; he flourished under the Shâhs Ṭahmâsp, Isma’îl II, and Muḥammad Khudâbanda, and died A.H. 996 (A.D. 1588), see Rieu ii. pp. 665 and 666; G. Flügel i. p. 591; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 23 and 500; Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1050 and 1239. 45; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 35, No. 13 (where a تأريخ on the accession of Shâh Isma’îl II is noticed), pp. 101, No. 12, and 543 (a مرثيّه on the death of Ḥasan and Ḥusain), p. 723, No. 8 (Ḳaṣîdas), and p. 724, No. 10 (another مرثيّه); and Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 312, No. 5655. The Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 250 (col. 311 in the Bodleian Cat.), fixes the poet’s death wrongly in A.H. 1000 (A.D. 1591, 1592).</p> <p>This copy contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣîdas, on fol.1<sup>a</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>نفير مرغ سحر خوان چو شد بلند صدا</p> <p>پرید زاغ شب از روی بیضۀ بیضا</p> <p>Ghazals, <em>first</em> series, in alphabetical order, on fol. 43<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>اى گوهر نام تو تاج سر دیوانها</p> <p>ذكر تو بصد عنوان آرايش عنوانها</p> <p>This series breaks off in the letter م, on fol. 87<sup>b</sup>, in consequence of a large lacuna after fol. 87; the last bait appearing here, corresponds to fol. 114<sup>b</sup>, l. 4 ab infra, margin-column, in the following copy, being there the last bait but one of the ghazal in question.</p> <p>Ghazals, <em>second</em> series, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 88<sup>a</sup>, beginning: تا همّتم بدست طلب زد در بلا الخ.</p> <p>This second series breaks off in the letter د, on fol. 116<sup>b</sup>, in consequence of another large lacuna.</p> <p>Risâla-i-Jalâliyyah (رسالۀ جلاليّه), on fol. 117<sup>a</sup>, defective at the beginning; comp. on this series of sixty-four ghazals with a preface in prose and aesthetic remarks at the head of each, Bodleian Cat., No. 1050, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 500. The remarks in the latter work, that this series was composed A.H. 997, must be an error, as the poet died A.H. 996. The first ghazal here begins:بودى در چمن ای كعبۀ حاجتمندان الخ.</p> <p>No date. The copy was received into the Library Oct. 29, 1838, presented by Mr. Hawkins.</p> <p>No. 2601, ff. 139. 2 coll., each ll. 14; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2338] كلّيّات وحشى
<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyyât-i-Waḥshî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1445 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 2338 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1445</p> <p>Another copy of Waḥshi’s Farhâd u Shîrîn.</p> <p>Beginning the same as in the preceding copy.</p> <p>Dated A.H. 1010, 23rd of Rabî’-althânî (A.D. 1601, Oct. 21), on fol. 27<sup>a</sup>; some Arabic prayers, on ff. 1<sup>a</sup> and 28<sup>b</sup>; some Persian verses, on fol. 27<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>College of Fort William, 1825.</p> <p>No. 2338, ff. 28, 2 coll., each ll. 17, and an additional margin-column on ff. 18<sup>b</sup>-27<sup>a</sup>, ll. 24-26; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>7/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 791] ديوان هجرى
<ul> <li><strong>Dîwân-i-Hijrî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1441 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 791 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1441</p> <p>Dîwân-i-Hijrî (ديوان هجرى).</p> <p>The lyrical poems of another poet, with the same takhalluṣ, Hijrî, who was, as the contents of this dîwân prove, one of the court-poets of the emperor Akbar, and is probably identical with the Khwâjah Hijrî, mentioned by Badâ’ûnî (A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 65, ll. 5 and 4 ab infra) as a descendant of Shaikh Aḥmad-i-Jâm Nâmaḳî (see the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 308, col. 305 in this Cat.), comp. also Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 3047 (col. 394 in the Bodleian Cat.), and Safînah, No. 189 (ib. col. 217), where he is called Hijrî of Farghâna, and stated to have been in Akbar’s service.</p> <p>This dîwân contains:</p> <p>Ḳaṣîdas and tarkîbbands, mostly in honour of the emperor Akbar, beginning, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>ملك هندوستان كه پر خوبان زنگی پیکر است</p> <p>اصل آن خاك و زمين گویا زمشك و عنبر است</p> <p>This first poem is introduced by a rubâ’î, beginning:</p> <p>اين نسخه كه وصف ملك هندوستانست</p> <p>نورس چمن پر از گل و ريحانست</p> <p>Similar headings in form of rubâ’îs and even of ḳiṭ’as are given to most of the poems. At the end of this part is a ta’rîkh for the death of the emperor Humâyûn: حيف زان پادشه عارف دانای حکیم = A.H. 963 (A.D. 1556).</p> <p>Ghazals, without any order, beginning, on fol. 29<sup>b</sup>:</p> <p>رسيد آن تازه ايّامى كه گل در بوستان آيد</p> <p>زشاخ سنبل تر بوى زلف دلستان آيد</p> <p>Muḳaṭṭa’ât and rubâ’is, beginning, on fol. 34<sup>a</sup> (not on fol. 34<sup>b</sup>, where the heading is placed by mistake):</p> <p>شها و شهريارا بر تو يا رب – مبارك مقدم فرزند بادا</p> <p>No date; among the many entries and notes on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>, the oldest appears to be A.H. 1015, 19th of Jumâdâ-alawwal= A.D. 1606, Sept. 22. This copy belonged formerly to Mr. Richard Johnson.</p> <p>No. 791, ff. 40, 2 coll., each ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 451] كلّيّات وحشى
<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyyât-i-Waḥshî.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1444 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 451 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1444</p> <p>Kulliyyât-i-Waḥshî (كلّيّات وحشى).</p> <p>The complete poetical works of Mullâ Waḥshî Bâfiḳî, who was born in Bâfiḳ in Kirmân, but spent his life in Yazd and died there A.H. 991 or 992 (A.D. 1583 or 1584), comp. Safînah, No. 198 (col. 217 in the Bodleian Cat.), Âtashkada, No. 256 (ib. col. 271), Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 74 (ib. col. 301), and Taḳi Kâshî, No. 453 (p. 35 in A. Sprenger, Catal.). Other copies of Waḥshî’s complete works are described in Rieu ii. p. 663 sq.; G. Flügel i. pp. 576 and 577; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 586 and 587.</p> <p>This copy of the Kulliyyât, in which, however, <em>one</em> short mathnawî, the خلد برين (edited by W. Nassau Lees, Calcutta, 1861), is wanting, contains:</p> <p>1.Nâżir u Manżûr (ناظر و منظور), a love-story in mathnawî-baits, composed A.H. 966 (A.D. 1558, 1559), on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>زهى نام تو سر ديوان هستى</p> <p>ترا بر جمله هستى پيشدستى</p> <p>See Ḥ. Khalfa vi. p. 291, No. 13521; the تأريخ كتاب ناظر و منظور is quoted Rieu ii. p. 664<sup>a</sup>, and also noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 723, No. 4.</p> <p>2.Farhâd u Shîrîn (فرهاد و شيرين), incorrectly styled خسرو و شيرين in Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 138, and in G. Flügel, loc. cit., another mathnawî, on fol. 54<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>الهى سينۀ ده آتش افروز</p> <p>در آن سينه دلى وان دل همه سوز</p> <p>comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1039-1042, 1209 , 4, and col. 769; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 65, No. 6; p. 98, No. 2; p. 711, No. 3, and p. 898. Lithographed, Calcutta, A.H. 1249, Bombay, A.H. 1265, and Ṭahrân, A.H. 1270.</p> <p>3.Tarji’-i-Sâḳînâma ( ترجيع ساقى نامه ), on fol. 98<sup>b</sup>, followed by a musaddas and a murabba’. Other copies of this musaddas are found in Bodleian Cat., No. 1043, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 697, No. 14.</p> <p>4.Ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, ḳiṭ’as , and chronograms, on fol. 106<sup>b</sup>, beginning, as in Rieu’s first copy: راحت اگر بایدت خلوت عنقا طلب الخ ( in Sprenger’s copy عزلت is substituted for خلوت); some ḳaṣîdas of Waḥshî are also found in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 723, No. 5, and p. 724, No. 13.</p> <p>5.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 169<sup>b</sup>, beginning as in Sprenger (but with a considerable modification in the wording): اى از تو سرخ گشته بخون رنگ زرد ما الخ.</p> <p>6.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 240<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Dated A.H. 1091 (A.D. 1680).</p> <p>No. 451, ff. 245, 2 coll., each ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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