[IO Islamic 645] Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb

Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 650 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 645 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Fâtiḥ-alḳulûb ( فاتح القلوب ) .

History of the life and wonderful deeds of the great Shaikh Mîr ‘Abdallâh ibn Mîr Mużaffar alḥusainî altirmidhî (who died A.H. 1035= A.D. 1626, according to the two chronograms on fol. 19a: زدنياى دنى قطب زمان رفت and روضۀ جاويد , a date also given in Beale’s Oriental Biogr. Dictionary, p. 6b, whereas, according to another chronogram on the same page, viz. شيخ زمانه بود , and the statement on fol. 18b, line 7, see also Rieu i. p. 154a, his death took place ten years sooner, in A.H. 1025 = A.D. 1616), by one of his disciple, divided into twelve bâbs, and beginning: الحمد لله ..... بعد از بيان توحيد و ثناى بارى عزّ اسمه و نعت سيّد المرسلين و خاتم النبييّن امير المؤمنين و امامان دين عليهم السّلام و مدح اصحاب مستطاب الخ.

Mîr ‘Abdallâh Tirmidhî, with the takhalluṣ Waṣfî , was a clever calligrapher , who got from the emperor Akbar the honorary epithet of Mushkîn Ḳalam, and a good poet too, see Rieu, loc. cit., and Bodleian Catal., No. 1894.

The last year that appears in this little work , mentioned as date of the death of one of the Shaikh’s great pupils, is A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1644, 1645), on fol. 31a, l . 15.

This copy was finished the 23rd of Dhû-alḳa’dah, in the 20th year (either of Shâhjahân, which would be A.H. 1056= A.D. 1646, December 31, or more likely of ‘Âlamgir, A.H. 1087 = A.D. 1677, January 27). On fol.1b the work is simply styled: تأريخ مير عبدالله .

No. 645, ff. 32, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; worm-eaten; size, 88/8 in. by 43/4 in.