• [IO Islamic 407] خورشيد و جمشيد/فراقنامه

Mathnawîs.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 407 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 1243 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1243

Two mathnawîs by Salmân of Sâwa.

1. Khwurshîd u Jamshîd (خورشيد و جمشيد) or Jamshîd u Khwurshîd (جمشيد و خورشيد), the love-story of the prince of China and the princess of Rûm, completed in Jumâdâ II, A.H. 763 (A.D. 1362, April), at the request of Sulṭân Uwais [otherwise Uwais I]. Beginning, on fol. 261b:

الهر پردۀ پندار بگشای – در گنجینۀ اسرار بگشای

Extracts from this mathnawî are given in the Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 35 ([Ethé and Sachau,] Bodleian Cat., col. 298).[ed note: = entry number 35 in Khulāṣat al-Kalām (خلاصة الكلام)]

2. Firâḳnâma (فراقنامه), the book of separation, completed A.H. 761 (A.D. 1360); beginning, on fol. 369b :

بنام خداى كه از تيره خاك

برآميخت اين جوهر جان پاک

No date.

No. 407, margin-column, ff. 261b-396a, ll. 44; clear Nasta’lîḳ; ornaments throughout.

[ed note: Quick link to manscripts of other works by this author.]