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[IO Islamic 281] Miscellaneous-Poetry

<ul> <li>Miscellaneous-Poetry</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1764 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: Hermann Eth&eacute;, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 281 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1764</span></p> <p><span>Poetical miscellanies and fragments.</span></p> <p><span>A collection of lyrical and epical poems, mostly fragmentary, bound together with a defective copy of a prose-story, for the greater part in a very precarious state.</span></p> <p><span>Contents:</span></p> <p><span>1.Ghazals, by </span><span><em>Sh&acirc;h&icirc;</em></span><span> (died A.H. 857), </span><span><em>Ḥ</em></span><span><span><em>&acirc;fiż</em></span></span><span><em>, &Acirc;</em></span><span><em>ṣaf&icirc;</em></span><span> (died A.H. 923), </span><span><em>J&acirc;m&icirc;</em></span><span>, etc. forming a sort of anthology, on ff. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-50</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, usually four baits in a page.</span></p> <p><span>2.Fragment of the d&icirc;w&acirc;n of </span><span><em>Ṣ</em></span><span><em>&acirc;</em></span><span><span><em>&rsquo;</em></span></span><span><em>ib</em></span><span>, containing ghazals, in alphabetical order, on ff. 51</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>-66</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ر نه مدّ بسم الله الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and breaking off already in the first rhyme-letter </span><span><span><span><span><span>ا</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(comp. above, No. 1606, 3 etc.); 2 columns, each ll. 15.</span></p> <p><span>3.Fragment, defective both at the beginning and end, of an allegorical mathnaw&icirc;, </span><span><span><span><span><span>حسن و دل</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(beauty and heart, see, for instance, fol. 71</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>), by a poet with the takhallu</span><span>ṣ </span><span><em>Ṣairaf&icirc; </em></span><span>(i.e. Maul&acirc;n&acirc; Ṣal&acirc;ḥ-ald&icirc;n of S&acirc;wa, who came to India Akbar and still flourished under Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;r, to whom this poem is dedicated, see fol. 69</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>), on ff. 67</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-111</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; 2 columns, each ll. 15.</span></p> <p><span>4.A large portion of the mystical mathnaw&icirc; </span><span><span><span><span><span>زاد المسافرين</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(provision for travellers), by the great </span><span>Ṣ</span><span>&ucirc;</span><span>fic poet and writer M&icirc;r Fakhr-als&acirc;d&acirc;t </span><span>Ḥ</span><span>usain&icirc; (i.e. </span><span>Ḥusain bin </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lim bin Ab&icirc;-al</span><span>ḥasan alḥusain&icirc;), who died after A.H. 720 (A.D. 1320), see complete copies of the same in Nos. 1832-1834 below. It begins, on fol. 112</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>:</span><span><span><span><span><span>اى برتر از آن همه كه </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>فتند الخ</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, and breaks off on fol. 151</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>.</span></p> <p><span>5.A fragment, defective both at beginning and end, of the </span><span><span><span><span><span>كارستان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see fol. 156</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>) or </span><span><span><span><span><span>كارنامه</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, an Indian story of the exploits and adventures of W&acirc;l&acirc; Akhtar, the prince of Hurmuz, composed A.H. 1050 (A.D. 1640, 1641) in Jaunp&ucirc;r by the same Ab&ucirc;-albarak&acirc;t Mun&icirc;r of L&acirc;h&ucirc;r (who has been mentioned in No. 16 of the preceding copy), and dedicated to the emperor Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n, on ff. 152</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>-196</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, ll. 15.</span></p> <p><span>No. 281, ff. 196, written by different hands in different styles of </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; size, 7&frac14; in. by 4 in.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>