[IO Islamic 1488] Persian and Rekhta Poetry

Poetry-Album

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1758 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1488 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Miscellaneous Poetry in Persian, Hindûstânî, Dakhnî, and Turkish, and Extracts in Verse and Prose (Nos. 1758-1772)

1758

An album of Persian and Rekhta poetry, containing different collections in alphabetical arrangement, the proper order of the leaves being this: ff. 1-31, 88-150, 32-87, 151-229.

First series, on ff. 1b-31 and 88-105: Persian ghazals and mukhammasât by various poets, beginning, on fol. 1b:

الحمد لذاته العلى الاعلى – النّعت لاسماء صفات الحُسْنى

Second series, on ff. 106b-150b and 32a-87b: Persian rubâ’îs, arranged alphabetically, without any author’s name, beginning, on fol. 106b:

ياران چو نصير نيستم هرزه درا

امّا حرفى حقّى بگويم بشما

Third series, on ff. 151b-194b: Rekhta ḳaṣidas, ghazals, mukhammasât, etc.

Fourth series, on ff. 195a-229: Persian miscellaneous poems, rubâ’îs by Ḥishmat (Muḥammad ‘Alî, pupil of ‘Abd-alghanîbeg Ḳabûl, who died A.H. 1139 was over thirty years in A.H. 1136), Bîdil (died A.H. 1133), etc.; fards, ḳiṭ’as, ta’rîkhât, ghazals, mathnawî-baits, etc., on fol. 203b sq., by Nâṣir bin Khusrau (died A.H. 481); Ḳizilbashkhân Ummîd (died A.H. 1159), Shaikh Ḥazîn (died A.H. 1180), Ṣâ’ib (died A.H. 1088), Ḥâfiż (died A.H. 791), Mukhliṣ Kâshî (see No. 1687 above), Fiṭrat (died A.H. 1106), Shaikh Niżâmî, Luṭf ‘Alîbeg Sâmî, and other minor poets.

Many pages left blank for later insertion of poems in their proper alphabetical place.

No date.

No. 1488, ff. 229, ll. 9-12; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 73/8 in. by 41/4 in.