[IO Islamic 900] Miscellaneous-Poetry

Miscellaneous-Poetry

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1766 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 900 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1766

Scattered selections from Persian works in verse and prose, put together without any order. The copy begins with extracts from the poems of Shaikh ‘Aṭṭâr (died A.H. 627, see Nos. 1031-1054 above), Mirzâ Ḳâsim, Maulânâ ‘Abdî (an ‘Abdî of Bâkû died A.H. 965; an ‘Abdî of Nîshâpûr was the uncle of Shâh Maḥmûd Zarîn-ḳalam, a third was ‘Abdî of Abarḳûh under Shâh Ṭahmâsp, a fourth ‘Abdî of Gunâbâd, a protégé of prince Ibrâhîm Mirzâ Jâhî Ṣafawî and author of a mathnawî گوهر شاهوار, a fifth lived in India under Shâhjahân, about A.H. 1051), etc.; Ḥakîm Jauharî (probably Jauharî Zargar, the contemporary of Athîr-aldîn Akhsîkatî, who died A.H. 608, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1481, col. 490 above), is found on fol. 9a; then follow again ‘Aṭṭâr, Ḥâfiż, etc.; several ḳaṣîdas and rubâ’is; extracts from Jâmî, Shaikh Rûzbahân Ṣûfî (on fol. 30a, see No. 1747, fifth Shaikh ab infra), Shâh Shujâ’, Mirzâ Raḍî Artîmânî (see No. 1522 above), Shaikh Auḥadî (died A.H. 738), Ḳulî Salîm (died A.H. 1057, see No. 1558 above), Abû Turâbbeg (under Shâh ‘Abbâs I, see No. 1528 above), Ḥijâbî, Shaikh Abû-alḳâsim (on fol. 33b), Thanâ’î (died A.H. 996), Ṣâ’ib, Khâḳânî, a مناجات by Amîr Khusran (died A.H. 725, on fol. 36b), etc.; a ساقينامه, by Aḳdasî (of Mashhad, died A.H. 1003, on fol. 41b), another by Ḥakîm Partawî (of Shîrâz, about A.H. 1000, on fol. 43a), a third by Mashrab (on fol. 48a); poems by Asadî of Ṭûs (died between A.H. 421 and 432, see No. 893 above, on fol. 54b), etc., by Niżâm of Astrâbâd (died A.H. 921, on fol. 61b), etc., by Salmân (of Sâwa, died A.H. 778 or 779, see Nos. 1237-1243 above, on fol. 64b); a mathnawî on Muḥammad’s ascension to heaven, در معراج (on fol. 76b sq.); short pieces in prose (on fol. 98b), intermixed with poetry, by Auḥadî, etc.; a fourth ساقينامه, by Ḥakîm ‘Aṭâi (on fol. 104a); prose-extracts from a book, entitled اخلاق رسول (on fol. 106a); poems by Niżâmî (on fol. 109b); prose-stories, etc. (on fol. 110a sq.); در ذكر فضيل عياض (on fol. 123b sq., see on Fuḍail bin ‘Iyâḍ the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 96, col. 284 in this Cat.); در فضيلت و آداب نماز شب (on fol. 135b sq.); extracts from a book on traditions, and other scattered prose-pieces (on fol. 139a sq.).

No. 900, ff. 176; written in Nasta’lîḳ by different hands; great variety in the number of columns and lines in a page; size, 97/8 in. by 57/8 in.