[IO Islamic 240] كلّيّات ملك قمّى

Kulliyyât-i-Malik-Ḳummî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1499 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 240 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1499

Kulliyyât-i-Malik Ḳummî (كلّيّات ملك قمّى).

The poetical works of Malik Ḳummî, who went about A.H. 987 (A.D. 1579) to the Dakhan, where he lived nearly forty years, first in Aḥmadnagar, later on in Bijâpûr in the service of Ibrâhîm ‘Âdilshâh II (A.H. 988-1037=A.D. 1580-1627), and died A.H. 1024 or 1025 (A.D. 1615 or 1616), according to some two months, according to others one year before his son-in-law, the poet Żuhûrî (see No. 1500 sq.); a few tadhkiras even state, that both poets died in the same affray, A.H. 1025. The latter date is, as far as Malik Ḳummî is concerned, corroborated by the following chronogram: او سر اهل سخن بود, comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 125, 151, and 481; Safînah, No. 560 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 262 (ib., col. 311); Beale, Oriental Biogr. Dictionary, p. 168a; see also Rieu ii. p. 678, and iii. p. 1091a. A son of Malik Ḳummî, Maulânâ ‘Abd-alkhâliḳ Samandar, who excelled as poet also, died, according to the Safînah, No. 565 (col. 229 in the Bodleian Cat.), A.H. 1029 (A.D. 1620); according to the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1089 (ib., col. 338), already A.H. 1016 (A.D. 1607, 1608), nine years before his father.

This collection of the poetical works of Malik Ḳummî contains:

1.A mathnawî, on fol. 90b, different from both the mathnawîs noticed in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 482; it begins:

بنام آنكه در دلها وطن ساخت

صنم را قبله گاه برهمن ساخت

Fol. 103b is left blank.

2.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 121b, beginning as in Sprenger:

دل استاد رموز و خامشى آيات برهانش الخ.

3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 178b, beginning:

اى بنامت لوحۀ ديباچۀ ديوان ما

صفحۀ دیوان عشقت چهرۀ ایمان ما

4.Ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’is, on fol. 325a, beginning:

دوش كز مورد بهشت شفا – يافت بيماريم گل بیمار

No date.

No. 240, ff. 90-342, 2 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two and the last four leaves supplied by a later hand; worm-eaten throughout; size, 83/8 in. by 43/4 in.