[IO Islamic 2480] قصّۀ چهار درويش
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<li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 739 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 2480 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li>
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<p>739</p>
<p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-ćahâr darwîsh (قصّۀ چهار درويش).</p>
<p>The Persian version of the story of the Sulṭân of Rûm, Âzâdbakhsh, his son Bakhtyâr, and the four dervishes, popularly ascribed to the greatest Persian Poet of India, <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79065219/">Amîr Khusrau</a> of Dihlî , who died A.H. 725 (A.D. 1325), comp. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344766">Bodleian Cat</a>., <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01bodluoft/page/212/mode/2up">No. 443</a>; <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91025331/">Rieu</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3333583">ii</a>. p. <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi02brituoft/page/762/mode/2up">762</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Ferdinand_Mehren">A. F. Mehren</a>, p. 32; [<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85149151/">Edward B.] Eastwick</a>, translation of the Bâgh-o-Bahâr, <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/163299906">Hertford, 1852</a>, p. vii.</p>
<p>Beginning:</p>
<p>امّا بعد راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شكر شكن الخ.</p>
<p><em>Dâstân I</em>, story of the first Dervish, on fol. 6<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p><em>Dâstân II</em>, story of the second Dervish, on fol. 32<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p><em>Dâstân III</em>, story of the Sulṭân, on fol. 56<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p><em>Dâstân IV</em>, story of the third Dervish (here called درويش چهارم by mistake), on fol. 100<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>Dâstân V, story of the fourth Dervish, on fol. 120<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p><em>Epilogue</em> or final story (داستان اخير), on fol. 135<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>The book ends on fol. 141<sup>a</sup>; the remaining two pages and a half are filled with a detailed colophon, in which the transcriber, who does not mention his name, gives a short historical account of the circumstances under which he made this copy, in A.H. 1188, the sixteenth year of Shâh ‘Âlam’s reign (A.D. 1774, 1775).</p>
<p>Bibliotheca <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a></p>
<p>No. 2480, ff. 142, ll. 18-19, but the greater number of pages are written in diagonal lines; Shikasta; size, 8<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 3<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p>
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<li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_20198">link</a> to other manuscript copies of this work.]</li>
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