[IO Islamic 1312] كلّيّات قدسى

Kulliyyât-i-Ḳudsî This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1554 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 1312 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1554 Extracts from Ḳudsî’s mathnawîs. This مُنْتَخَب contains extracts from Ḳudsî’s mathnawî in praise of Kashmîr (see Nos. 1552, 4, and 1553, 6), on fol. 1b, beginning:پادشاهان الخ (read پادشاه) بنام پادشاهى ; from the Żafarnâma-i-Shâhjahânî; and probably also from the Sâḳînâma, which is written in the same metre as the Żafarnâma. The Żafarnâma begins, on fol. 9a, as No.2 in the preceding copy: بنام خدائى كه داد از شهان جهان پادشاهى بشاهجهان Dated, on fol. 27a, the 14th of Rajab, A.H. 1093 (A.D. 1682, July 19), by Abû Muḥammad bin Sayyid Muḥammad. On ff. 27b-29a a ḳaṣîdah and a ghazal of Muḥammad Riḍâ ibn Mullâ Fauj-allâh and two rubâ’îs of Mullâ Fauj-allâh are added, written A.H. 1118 (A.D. 1706, 1707), by Shams-aldîn Muḥammad Lârî. No. 1312, ff. 29, 3 coll. in diagonal lines, ll. 12-16; Shikasta; size, 98/8 in. by 51/4 in.