[IO Islamic 356] كلّيّات امير خسرو
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<li><strong>Kulliyyât-i-Amîr Khusrau.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1190 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 356 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li>
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<p>1190</p>
<p>Another copy of the same four dîwâns.</p>
<p>Contents:</p>
<p>1.Tuḥfat-alṣighar, the <em>first</em> dîwân, preceded by the usual prose-preface of the <em>second</em>, beginning, on fol.1<sup>b</sup>: بفضل الله قد سطرت هذه الصفحات الخ. Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 4<sup>b</sup>: خداى عزّ و جل الخ.</p>
<p>The first poem has the following introductory quatrain (or first instalment of the ‘Silsilah’):</p>
<p>لوحى كه بر صحيفۀ گردون مصوّرست</p>
<p>توقيع آن بنام خداوند اكبرست</p>
<p>شد تحفة الصغر چو خطاب اين سواد را</p>
<p>از ذكر ذوالجلال سوادى منوّرست</p>
<p>The dîwân consists here of ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, the usual short mathnawî (beginning, on fol. 33<sup>a</sup>: هى هى اى تيره راى الخ ), ghazals (which begin, on fol. 35<sup>b</sup> margin: (اى آفتاب تافته از روى انورت الخ), and rubâ’îs (on fol. 52<sup>b</sup> margin).</p>
<p>2.Baḳiyya-i-naḳiyyah, the <em>fourth</em> dîwân, without a preface. It consists of ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, begins, on fol. 65<sup>b</sup>, زبان كه بر در معنى الخ , and is incomplete at the end, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 91.</p>
<p>3.Wasaṭ-alḥayât, the <em>second</em> dîwân, defective at the beginning, in consequence of the same lacuna; it opens on fol. 92<sup>a</sup> in the middle of the same prose-preface, which in No. 1950 (1188 in this Cat.) is prefixed to the <em>second</em> dîwân, and which differs entirely from the usual one; the first words, ميان چندين غوّاصان گوهر سخنم بروى آب الخ , correspond to No. 1950, fol. 53<sup>b</sup>, l. 4 ab infra. Fol. 95 must be placed before fol. 94. Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 94<sup>b</sup>: حمد رانم بر زبان الخ .</p>
<p>This dîwân consists here of ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs (the first of which begins, on fol. 142<sup>b</sup>: (چون همای زایتش پرواز کرد الخ, a second large collection of ghazals (beginning, on fol. 151<sup>b</sup> margin: اى بدرماندگى پناه همه الخ, see Bodleian Cat., top of col. 554), and rubâ’îs (beginning on fol. 223<sup>b</sup>: صانع ملكى كه ملك هستى پرداخت الخ , see Bodleian Cat., loc. cit.).</p>
<p>4.Ghurrat-alkamâl, the <em>third</em> dîwân; beginning of the preface, on fol. 232<sup>b</sup>: الله اطلع الغرر من مطلع الخ.</p>
<p>Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 264<sup>a</sup>: چه زهره خاك مسكين را الخ</p>
<p>This ḳaṣîdah is preceded by the same two initial baits of the ‘Silsilah’ as in No. 1186, 2: چون آفتاب روشن الخ . This dîwân consists here of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands, ḳiṭ’as, mathnawîs (the first of which, on fol. 343<sup>a</sup>, is the مفتاح الفتوح, see Nos. 1186, 11; 1187, 13; and 1188, 14; the second, on fol. 355<sup>b</sup>, agrees with the first short mathnawi in No. 1187, 14), ghazals (the first of which, on fol. 369<sup>b</sup> margin, begins : اى زخيال ما برون الخ, see the remarks in Nos. 1187. 4, and 1188, 5), and rubâ’îs (beginning, on fol. 403<sup>a</sup>:پاكست خداوند الخ, see ibidem).</p>
<p>No date; but a seal from A.H. 1167 and an entry from A.H. 1168 (A.D. 1753-1755) are found on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>The title given to this copy, كلّيّات امير خسرو, is incorrect, as it only contains the four dîwâns.</p>
<p>No. 356, ff. 418, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17, and a third on the margin ll. 26; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the first, second, and third dîwân; size 10<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p>
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