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[IO Islamic 3082] Mathnawîs

<ul> <li>Mathnaw&icirc;s</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1634 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 3082 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1634</span></p> <p><span>Mathnaw&icirc;s by </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;</span><span>ḳilkh&acirc;n R&acirc;z&icirc;.</span></p> <p><span>Two romantic stories in verse by M&icirc;r </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Askar&icirc; </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;</span><span>ḳilkh&acirc;n R&acirc;z&icirc;, who was in high favour with the emperor </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r, and died as governor of the province of Dihl&icirc; in Rab&icirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> II, A.H. 1108 (A.D. 1696, Nov.); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1148 and 1149; Rieu ii. p. 699; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 123 and 543; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 935; Khul&acirc;ṣat-alkal&acirc;m, No. 29 (col. 297 in the Bodleian Cat.); Ouseley, Notices of Persian Poets, p. 167 sq. Besides the three mathnaw&icirc;s, contained in The India Office Collection, he also composed the </span><span><span><span><span><span>نغمات العشق</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>ظفرنام</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عالم</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يرى</span></span></span></span></span><span>, also styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>واقعات عالم</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يرى</span></span></span></span></span><span>, a history of the first five years of </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s reign (see Nos. 345 and 346 above), and a d&icirc;w&acirc;n, which is described both in the Bodleian Cat. and in A. Sprenger, loc. cit. The present copy contains:</span></p> <p><span>1.Ff.1-80: Sham</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>u Parw&acirc;na (</span><span><span><span><span><span>شمع و </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>روانه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), Candle and Moth, that is the Indian love-story of Ratan S&ecirc;n (or Ratan) and Padam&acirc;wat (or Padam), composed A.H. 1069 (A.D. 1658, 1659), see fol. 80</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 2: </span><span><span><span><span><span>سال هجرت هزار و شصت و نهم</span></span></span></span></span><span>. The title appears in the heading of fol. 1</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and on fol. 79</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, lin. penult. It is based on an older Hind&icirc; story (see fol. 80</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 5), which had already been treated in Persian by Bazm&icirc;, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619), see Nos. 1582 and 1583 above.</span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>اى فرا</span></span></span><span><span><span>ز</span></span></span><span><span><span>ند</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>رواق س</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هر </span></span></span><span><span>&ndash;</span></span><span><span><span> وى طرازند</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>س</span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هر بمهر</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>A Persian prose-version of the same story, founded on this poem of R&acirc;z&icirc;, viz. </span><span><span><span><span><span>فرح بخش</span></span></span></span></span><span>, La</span><span><span>ć</span></span><span>hm&icirc;-R&acirc;m, is noticed in Rieu ii. p. 768</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>. Another prose-version is described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 998.</span></p> <p><span>Ff.81-87 contain smaller poetical pieces, ta</span><span>&rsquo;r&icirc;khs, rub&acirc;&rsquo;is and tarji&rsquo;band, probably by the same author, and an epilogue in prose by the transcriber, M&icirc;r &lsquo;Al&icirc; Mu</span><span>ḥammad Akbar, who dated this copy the 25th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah, A.H. 1148 (eighteenth year of Muḥammadsh&acirc;h</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s reign)=A.D. 1736, May 7, in a place near Seringapatan.</span></p> <p><span>2.Ff.88-170</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>: Mihr u M&acirc;h (</span><span><span><span><span><span>مهر و ماه</span></span></span></span></span><span>), Sun and Moon, that is the Indian love-story of prince Man&ocirc;har and princess Madhum&acirc;lat, composed A.H. 1065 (A.D. 1655), see fol. 170</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, lin. penult.: </span><span><span><span><span><span>زهجرت يكهزار و شصت و </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>نج است</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and last line: </span><span><span><span><span><span>بخوان تأريخ اين ديبا</span></span></span><span><span><span>چۀ غم</span></span></span></span></span><span>. In the Kh&acirc;timah this poem is styled </span><span><span><span><span><span>قصّ</span></span></span><span><span>ۀ </span></span><span><span><span>عشق</span></span></span></span></span><span>, fol. 168</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, l. 7, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>غم نامه</span></span></span></span></span><span>, fol. 170</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, lin. penult. It is, like the preceding mathnaw&icirc;, based on an older Hind&icirc; story by Shaikh Jamman or Manjhan, which was first translated into Persian verse A.H. 1059 (A.D. 1649), see Rieu ii. pp. 700</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> and 803</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, and three years after the second Persian adaptation by </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;</span><span>ḳilkh&acirc;n R&acirc;z&icirc;, turned into Dakhn&icirc; verses by Miy&acirc;n Nuṣrat&icirc; A.H. 1068 (A.D. 1657, 1658), under the title of </span><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>لشن عشق</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, copies of which are found in the India Office Collection, Nos. 1434, 2486, and 2621; in the Bodleian Library, No. 2320 of the Cat., etc. Comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 630, and Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la Litt</span><span>&eacute;r.</span></p> <p><span>Hindouie, etc. i. p. 388; ii. pp. 485 and 486; on prose-versions of the same story, see above, No. 803, 3. </span></p> <p><span>Beginning:</span></p> <p><span><span><span>خداوندا غم خود ده دلم را</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>زعشق آسان نما هر مشكلم را</span></span></span></p> <p><span>Lithographed, Lucknow, 1846.</span></p> <p><span>Ff. 170</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 171</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> contain eight rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s; ff. 171</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> and 172</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span> an epilogue of the transcriber, who is identical with that of the first mathnaw&icirc;, viz. M&icirc;r </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Al&icirc; Akbar, and dated this poem the 26th of Dh&ucirc;-al</span><span>ḳa</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>dah, A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1736, April 8), at </span><span><span><span><span><span>بنواسى</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(Banwasse, as the place is called on the last fly-leaf).</span></p> <p><span>No. 3082, ff. 172, 2 coll., each ll. 13; </span><span>Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; curious drawings on ff. 28</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 50</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 52</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 64</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 65</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 65</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 75</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 79</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 81</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, 101</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>, and 142</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>; blanks left for illustrations on ff. 41</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, 112</span>^{<span>a</span>}<span>, and 114</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span>; ff. 49, 70, 140, and 157 are left entirely blank; fol. 112</span>^{<span>b</span>}<span> is greatly injured; size, 8</span>^{<span>1/8</span>}<span> in. by 4</span>^{<span>1/2</span>}<span> in.</span></p>