[IO Islamic 2223] جام جم

Jâm-i-Jam. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1228 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 2223 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1228 Jâm-i-Jam (جام جم). The cup of Jamshîd, a mathnawî in imitation of Sanâ’î’s Ḥadîḳah (see Nos. 914-925 in this Cat.), by Rukn-aldîn Auḥadî Marâghî Iṣfahânî (so according to the majority of authorities, i.e. a native of Marâgha near Tabrîz and resident of Iṣfahân; comp. Butkhâna, No. 31, Bodleian Cat., col. 201; Âtashkada, No. 136, ib., col. 266; Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 4, ib., col. 295; Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 29, ib., col. 303; Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 32, ib., col. 317; only in the Haft Iḳlîm, No. 874, coll. 441 and 442 in this Cat., it is distinctly stated that he ought to be designated Iṣfahânî, and not Marâghî, and that view is followed in the Safînat-alauliyâ, No. 349, col. 309 in this Cat.), who died in Marâgha, A.H. 738 (A.D. 1337, 1338); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 785-789; Rieu ii. p. 619; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 713 and 839-841; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 362, 363; G. Flügel i.p. 543; Hammer in Wiener Jahrbücher, vol. 65, Anzeigeblatt, p. 67; H. Khalfa ii. p. 498, No. 3856, etc. Auḥadî was a pupil of Shaikh Auḥad-aldîn Kirmânî (who died A.H. 697=A.D. 1298), with whom he is often confounded. Besides the present mathnawî, he composed a dîwân (copies of which are described in Rieu ii. p. 619a; W. Pertsch, p. 72, etc.; see also Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 264) and a ده نامه (see Rieu, loc. cit., and Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 239). The Jâm-i-Jam was composed A.H. 733 (A.D. 1332, 1333), see here, fol. 137b, l. 3 (in one copy of the British Mus. Or. 333 there appears as date A. H. 732), and divided into three daurs, viz. دور اوّل در مبداء آفرينش, on fol. 21a; دور دوم در كيفيّت معاش جمهور; in two bâbs, (a) در معاش اهل دنيا, on fol. 34b; (b) در معاش اهل آخرت, on fol. 79b; دور سيوم در شرح معاد خلائق و احوال آخرت, on fol. 121b. Beginning: قد قال (read لامرء) هو الله لامره ( read قُل) قال من له الحمد دائما متوال On fol. 8b the praise of Sulṭân Abû Sa’îd Bahâdur-khân, the reigning sovereign (A.H. 716-736=A.D. 1316-1335), begins, and on fol. 14a the dedication of the poem to the wazîr Khwâjah Ghiyâth-aldîn Muḥammad bin Rashîd. Dated by Mîr Najm-aldîn alḥusainî, who transcribed this excellent copy for his friend Mir Sirâj-aldîn, the 23rd of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1169 (A.D. 1756, Jan. 26). College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2223, ff. 138, 2 coll., each ll. 17; small, but very distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¾ in. by 4 in.