[IO Islamic 2073] غرّة الكمال

<strong>Ghurrat-alkamâl.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1192 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2073 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1192 Ghurrat-alkamâl (غرّة الكمال). Another copy of Amîr Khusrau’s <em>third</em> dîwân, with the usual prose-preface, on fol.1^b, beginning: غرّۀ كمال انسانى الخ. There is a large lacuna between ff. 31 and 32, which comprises, according to the Arabic paging, eight leaves, and corresponds to ff. 28^a, first line, to 34^a, l. 5 ab infra, middle, in No. 51 (1186 in this Cat.). Beginning of the poetry, on fol. 44^b, with the same chain-ḳaṣîdah as No. 51: چون آفتاب روشن توحيد ذو الجلال الخ, written throughout in red ink. All the following ḳaṣîdas have, as in No. 51, as headings the various distichs of this poem; the second ḳaṣîdah is identical with the second in that copy, and so forth. The dîwân consists of ḳaṣîdas, tarkîbbands (on fol. 153^b), ḳiṭ’as (on fol. 166^b, with a large lacuna after fol. 168, comprising six leaves and corresponding to ff. 147^b, lin. penult., to 154^a, l. 5 in No 51), and short mathnawîs, the first of which, on fol. 181^b, is the مفتاح الفتوح, see Nos. 1186, 11; 1187, 13; 1188, 14; and 1190, 4; the second and third, on ff. 203^b and 211^b respectively , are identical with the first two mathnawîs in No. 1187, 14. No date. No. 2073, ff. 225, 2 coll., each ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^7/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.