[IO Islamic 110] زاد المسافرين

Zâd-almusâfirîn

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1832 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 110 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1832

Zâd-almusâfirîn (زاد المسافرين).

The provision for travellers (on the mystic road), another Ṣûfic mathnawî by Mîr Fakhr-alsâdât Ḥusainî, in imitation of Sanâ’î’s Ḥadîḳah (see Nos. 914-927 above), in eight maḳâlas, viz.:

1.در مجاهد طلب حق, on fol. 188a.

2.فى شرف البيان, on fol. 195a.

3.در ارشاد و معامله, on fol. 205b.

4.در صفت سالك طريقت, on fol. 208a.

5.در بيان عشق و مراتب او, on fol. 215a.

6.در معرفت نفس و الطاف او, on fol. 224a, first line.

7.در معرفت دين و در بيان تحقيق او, on fol. 231b.

8.در بيان حال پير و مريد, on fol. 242b.

Beginning:

اى برتر از آن همه كه گفتند – آنانكه پديد يا نهفتند

The date appears here on fol. 251a, in the last bait but one, in this form:

در هفصد و بيست در زهجرت

گشت آخر اين كتاب تمّت

=A.H. 720, see the remark in No. 1821 above. Other copies of this poem are noticed in Bodleian Cat., No. 1259; Rieu ii. p. 608; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 430 and 431; W. Pertsch, p. 10; Cat. Codd. Or. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 116 ; Cat. des MSS. et Xylogr., pp. 356 and 438; see also Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 528, No. 6774.

No date.

No. 110, ff. 184-251, 2 coll., each ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated heading on fol. 184b; size, 6½ in. by 3½ in.