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<ul> <li>Poem-Collection</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1751 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 57 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <p><span>1751</span></p> <p><span>A collection of short extracts, chiefly rub&acirc;</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>&icirc;s and fards, from the poems of old and modern Persian authors, collected in form of an album, as it seems, by prince Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h, or with his full title, Mirz&acirc; Juw&acirc;nbakht Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h, the eldest son of Sh&acirc;h </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>&Acirc;lam, who died in Ban&acirc;ras the 24th of Sha</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>b&acirc;n, A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1788, May 30); see a sketch of his life in Francklin</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s History of Shah Aulum, pp. 154-162, and comp. Rieu iii. pp. 946 and 1084. On the fly-leaf is written </span><span><span><span><span><span>عنايتى مرشد زاده </span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span>&lsquo;</span></span><span>Poems by the prince Jah&acirc;nd&acirc;rsh&acirc;h,</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> but that these are not the prince</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>s own verses, but extracts, made by him from others, we see from the headings of the single piece, beginning with extracts from </span><span><em>Ghaz&acirc;l&icirc; of Mashhad</em></span><span> (died A.H. 980) thus:</span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>رخ فانوس خيال و عالمى حيران درو</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>مردمان </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ون صورت فانوس سر </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ردان درو</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span>From fol. 17 down to the end the headings are wanting, but sometimes a takhalluṣ occurs, for instance </span><span><em>Ṣa</em></span><span><span><em>&rsquo;</em></span></span><span><em>d&icirc;</em></span><span> and others, and proves these poems likewise to be from the d&icirc;w&acirc;ns of other poets.</span></p> <p><span>Copied in the month Ramaḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, July-August), by Ḥ&acirc;fi</span><span><span>ż</span></span><span> Muḥammad W&acirc;si</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span> Kh&acirc;n.</span></p> <p><span>No. 57, ff. 97, 2 coll., each containing five baits; clear Nasta</span><span><span>&rsquo;</span></span><span>liḳ; size, 9 in. by 4</span>^{<span>7/8</span>}<span> in. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>