[IO Islamic 2830] Majmû'ah

Majmû’ah

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1771 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 2830 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1771

Majmû’ah (مجموعه).

A very uncouth collection of mathnawîs, lyrical poetry, and prose-treatises, consisting of:

1.An anonymous mathnawî, on fol.1b, beginning:

نفس را در برند (؟ پرند ) صبح بيزم

كه رنگ مدّ بسم الله ريزم

2.A second anonymous mathnawî, on fol. 5b, beginning:

شنيدم از سكندر احتشامى

ارسطو دانشى قيصر غلامى

3.A third anonymous mathnawî, on fol. 19a, beginning:

الهى نالۀ دردم حزين كن

چو نى كلكم فغان درآستين كن

4.A fourth mathnawî, styled بخت بيدار (lack alert), on fol. 29b, beginning: شبى خلوتگزين با صبح امّيد الخ.

5.Ḳaṣîdas, etc., on fol. 35a (without author’s names):

Poems by Żuhûrî (see Nos. 1500-1514 above), on fol. 44b sq. Between ff. 108 and 109 one leaf is wanting according to the Arabic paging.

6.A prose-tract on archery (در بيان تيراندازى و كماندارى), on fol. 132a.

7.Some other poetical specimens, on fol. 134a.

8.واقعه جات نعمت خان عالى تخلص, extracts from the satirical chronicle of the siege of Haidarâbâd in A.H. 1097 (A.D. 1686), by Ni’matkhân ‘Âlî, see above, No. 1659, 2. They begin here with the 15th of Rajab.

9.Some poetry again, on fol. 138b. Ff. 144b and 145 are left blank.

10.Poetical specimens by Waḥîd (probably Ṭâhir Waḥîd, see Nos. 1653-1655 above), Mu’minkhân, etc.

Between ff. 153 and 154 two leaves are wanting according to the Arabic paging.

11.Letters and refined prose-writing, on fol. 154a; one is headed نصيرا در طلب آب , on fol. 154b, perhaps by Naṣîrâ of Hamadân, who lived about A.H. 1015 (A.D. 1606); another, on fol. 162b, ديباچۀ سفينۀ مرزا محمّد حسين ; a third, on fol. 167a, ديباچۀ ديوان ابو طالب كليم , an introduction to Abû Ṭâlib Kalîm’s dîwân, which is not found in the usual copies of his works, see above, Nos. 1563-1570; it is probably due to the same Jalâl-aldîn Muḥammad Ṭabâṭabâ’î, who wrote the dîbâća to Ḳudsî’s dîwân, which is also found here on fol. 169b sq., and another to that of Shifâ’î (see No. 1763, 21). Ff. 177 and 178 are left blank.

12.Same poetry and prose-pieces, without headings, on fol. 179a.

13.Mirât-alfutûḥ (مرآت الفتوح), the well-known prose-treatise of Mullâ Ṭughrâ (see above, No. 1586, IV), on fol. 184b, beginning: يكه تازان ميدان الخ.

No. 2830, ff. 191; written by many different hands in rude Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta, partly in diagonal lines; size, 6½ in. by 3¼ in.