[IO Islamic 273] باغ ارم

Jâmî's-Bâgh-i-Iram.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1390 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 273 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Poets who died between A.H. 900 and 1000.

1390

Bâgh-i-Iram (باغ ارم).

The garden of Iram, or the story of Bahrâm and Bihrûz, an epic poem by Maulânâ Kamâl-aldîn Bannâ’î of Harât, who was killed in the massacre of Shâh Isma’îl at Samarḳand, A.H. 918 (A.D. 1512, 1513); comp. on the poet’s life and works Bodleian Cat., No. 987; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 372; A. F. Mehren, p. 41; Notices et Extraits iv. p. 289; see also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 635 (col. 424 in this Cat.); Âtashkada, No. 291 (ib. col. 273), etc. The poem is usually styled بهرام و بهروز (see also Rieu i. p. 351b); but the genuine title appears here, on fol. 33a, l. 6:

نام او شد نهال باغ ارم – تا كه روشن كند چراغ ارم

(the word نهال being an apparent misspelling for نهاده, as the Bodleian copy has); in his lyrical poems Bannâ’î used Ḥâlî as takhalluṣ (see Âtashkada and Sprenger, loc. cit.). Beginning of the poem, on fol. 1b:

اى وجود تواصل كلّ وجود – هستى و بودۀ و خواهى بود

(an initial bait which has been closely imitated by Hilâlî in his شاه و گدا, see further below, Nos. 1426 – 1429); on fol. 1a, the author is called by mistake Thanâ’î instead of Bannâ’î. The right order of ff. 262-265 is: 262, 264, 263, 265.

No. 273, ff. 269, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; collated throughout; size, 81/8 in. by 43/8 in.