[IO Islamic 3145] كلّيّات نعمتخان عالى

Kulliyyât-i-Ni’matkhân-‘Âlî

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1660 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 3145 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1660

A smaller collection of Ni’matkhân ‘Âlî’s works.

This copy contains:

1.A. prose-treatise, intermixed with verses by the author himself and with numerous passages of the Ḳurân, not found in the preceding copy, on fol. 1b, beginning: صبح صادق سخن از پرتو آفتاب ربوبيّت كه فلكش الخ.

2.The prose-preface of the dîwân, identical with that in Nos. 1157 and 1158 of the Bodleian Cat., and A. Sprenger’s copy, loc. cit., on fol. 11a, beginning: عيار افزاى نقد سخن اكسيريست كه چون بر فلزّات معدن نقد طرح شود زر خالص الخ.

3.Dîwân (ديوان), consisting a ḳaṣîdas, ghazals, ḳiṭ’as, rubâ’îs, fards, and a great number of short mathnawîs, mostly in alphabetical order, on fol. 18a; beginning (as in Rieu’s first copy, Sprenger’s copy, and No. 1158 of the Bodleian Cat.) :

تمامى يابد از مصراع بسم الله ديوانها

ببين كز مدّ آن ابروست زيب روى عنوانها

4.Waḳâ’i’-i-Ḥaidarâbâd, on fol. 222a, beginning:

دمى كه مدرّس الخ

No date.

No. 3145, ff. 253, ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; splendid binding in green and golden; size, 10¾ in. by 6 in.