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[IO Islamic 2568] تيمور نامه

<ul> <li><strong>T&icirc;m&ucirc;rn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1410&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2568 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1410</p> <p>T&icirc;m&ucirc;rn&acirc;ma (تيمور نامه).</p> <p>H&acirc;tif&icirc;&rsquo;s famous mathnaw&icirc; on the warlike exploits of Tim&ucirc;r, an imitation of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s Iskandarn&acirc;ma, styled تيمورنامه (or rather, to suit the metre, تِمُرنامه), also sometime ظفرنامۀ تیموری (see Haft Iḳl&icirc;m, No. 671), or ظفرنامۀ منظوم (see Zeitschrift der D. M. G. xiii. p. 340, No. 252, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 891, No. 908 and note 2), or simply ظفرنامه (see Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 176, No. 8017, and fol. 1^a in the present copy, probably on account of the verse in the kh&acirc;timah of the poem itself, fol. fol. 115^b, l. 9, ظفرنامۀ يافتم بى دروغ, where the ظفرنامه, however, clearly refers to Sharaf-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc; Yazd&icirc;&rsquo;s well-known history of that title, Nos. 173-187 in this Cat.), or even, with an allusion to Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s poem, اسكندرنامۀ تيمورى (so in the Rauḍat-alṣaf&acirc;, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 892, note 2); see, besides the general references given above in No. 1398, Ḥ. Khalfa ii. p. 489, No. 3820; and iv. p. 176, No. 8017; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, p. 381; and J. Aumer, p. 34; the Hamburg collection also contains several excellent copies of this mathnaw&icirc;; and there is one copy in the Library of the D.M.G. (Pers. 23). Lithographed in Lucknow, 1869, under the title of ظفرنامۀ هاتفى.</p> <p>Beginning:</p> <p>بنام خدائى كه فكر و خرد &ndash; نيارد كه تا كُنْهِ او پى برد</p> <p>This oldest copy of all extant was finished in the very year of H&acirc;tif&icirc;&rsquo;s death, viz. A.H. 927, the 15th of Shaww&acirc;l (A.D. 1521, Sept. 18), by Kam&acirc;l N&icirc;sh&acirc;p&ucirc;r&icirc; N&ucirc;rbakhsh&icirc;. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2568, ff. 117, 2 coll., each ll. 13: excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 9&frac12; in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>