[IO Islamic 1237] طرب المجالس

Ṭarab-almajâlis

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1829 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 1237 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1829

Ṭarab-almajâlis (طرب المجالس).

The emotion of (mystic) assemblies, another elaborate Ṣûfic work on metaphysical and ethical matters, by the same Mir Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî, unfortunately a very defective copy. It is divided into the following five ḳisms:

1.در بيان خلق و امر , in eight faṣls, on fol. 7a.

2.در اصناف ذرّيّت آدم, in twelve faṣls, on fol. 32a.

3.در فضيلت و شرف انسان بر جميع حيوانات, in fourteen faṣls, on fol. 66b. There is a lacuna after fol. 81, through which the fifth faṣl is entirely missing.

The sixth faṣl is found (by a misplacement of the leaves) on fol. 141b.

4.در بيان اخلاق حميده, in nine faṣls, on fol. 118a. Part of the eighth faṣl and the whole of the ninth are missing in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 139.

5.در بيان اوصاف ذميمه, in twelve faṣls; only the beginning of the second faṣl is found on fol. 140b, all the rest is missing. The copy breaks off on fol.140b.

The remaining leaves belong (partly or entirely) to the third ḳism. An index on ff. 5a-7a.

Beginning:حمد و ثنا مر خدايرا جلّ جلاله و عمّ نواله آن صانعى كه ذرّۀ خاك الخ.

No date. An entry from A.H. 1074 (A.D. 1663, 1664) on the fly-leaf.

No. 1237, ff. 146, ll. 11; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/8 in. by 43/8 in.