[IO Islamic 2722] اشعار سنائى

<strong>Ash’âr-i-Sanâ’î</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 927 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2722 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 927 Ash’âr-i-Sanâ’î( اشعار سنائى). A large collection of Sanâ’î’s poetical works, but arranged in a somewhat confusing manner. Contents: A prose preface (ديباچه), which is apparently that of Muḥammad bin ‘Alî al-Raffâ (or bin ‘Alî Raḳḳâm, see above in No. 921), as the beginning is the usual one of that preface, viz.: الحمد لله الخبير بخفيّات الضمائر العليم بحقّيّات ( بخبيّات Rieu) السرائر المنزّه عن الامثال و النظائر المتعالى عن العشيرة و العشائر الخ; but at the end of this preface, on fol. 7^a, the following statement appears, that this collection of Sanâ’i’s poetical works is entitled: كتاب الحدائق فى الحقائق , and consists of ten ḳisms, viz.: قسم اوّل در نامها و جوابها كه وى نوشته است. قسم دويم در توحيد ربّ العالمين جلّ جلاله. قسم سيوم در نعت پيغمبر محمّد مصطفا صلوات الله و سلامه. قسم چهارم اندر موعظه وزهد و حكمت. قسم پنجم در مدحيّات و مراثى. قسم ششم در غزلّيات. قسم هفتم فى المقطّعات و المراثى و الهزليّات. قسم هشتم در رباعياّت. قسم نهم در مراتب حال انسانى كه آنرا كنوز الرموز خوانند و سير العبّاد الى المعاد نيز خوانند. قسم دهم در كارنامه كه ببلخ نوشته بود و سنائى آباد فى الزهد و الموعظة و السلوك و العشق‘ In the collection itself these separate ḳisms are not forthcoming, except the <em>first, ninth</em>, and <em>tenth</em>. The <em>first</em> (in prose) begins, on fol. 7^b, l. 1: پيش از آنكه لطف ديموميّت و حكمت ربوبيّت الخ. Then follows a large series of ḳaṣîdas, ḳiṭ’as, ghazals, and rubâ’îs, mixed together without any order, on fol. 23^b, beginning: قد شهد الله جلّ ذكراه – بأنّه لا اله الاّ هو At the end of this series is written: تمّت الكتاب (!sic)الحدائق فى الحدائق الخ ; and it is dated the 17th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1000 and ( the second number is missing). On fol. 244^a there is found a ḳaṣîdah in honour of Shaikh Abû-almafâkhir Muḥammad bin Manṣûr; on fol. 245^a a new series of ḳaṣîdas begins, the first bait of which runs thus: اى نهاده پاى همّت بر سر اوج سما الخ, followed by ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 283^b, and a string of ghazals in alphabetical order, except the first six, on fol. 295^a. Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal, on fol. 296^a: اى همه خوشى در آغوش شما قبلۀ جانها بُناگوش شما The <em>ninth</em> ḳism begins on fol. 365^a and contains, quite in agreement with the above index, the mystical mathnawî كنوز الرموز, otherwise styled سير العبّاد الى المعاد ( see No. 914 above). The <em>tenth</em> ḳism begins on fol. 380^a and contains the second mathnawî mentioned in the index, the كارنامه (see Nos. 914 and 916 above), the heading of which runs here thus: آغاز كارنامه كه خواجه سنائى از بلخ بفرنين ( بغزنين read) فرستاد بجماعت دوستان و ياران مذكور الخ. At the end of the copy, on ff. 393^b-411, a third mathnawî is found, viz. the عقلنامه (see Nos. 914 and 915 above), introduced by a short preface in prose, beginning: الحمد لله حمدًا بكافى نعمه الخ; this mathnawî is, according to the index and the colophon on fol. 411^a, also styled سنائى آباد. No. 2722, ff. 411, 2 coll., each ll. 15-24; written by different hands in various forms of Nasta’lîḳ; some of the last pages injured; size, 9^3/8 in. by 6-6^3/8 in.