[IO Islamic 2344] فتوح الحرمين

Futûḥ-Alḥaramain. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1417 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 2344 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1417 Futûḥ-alḥaramain (فتوح الحرمين). A poetical description of the two holy cities, Makkah and Madînah, and of the observances during the pilgrimage, by Muḥyî Lârî, one of the pupils of learned Dawânî (who died A.H. 908 = A.D. 1502, 1503, see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 167, col. 390 in this Cat.). A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 451, ascribes this poem wrongly to Jâmî (see on the origin of this mistake Rieu ii. p. 655), and the same has been done on fol. 1a of No. 887 (1420 in this Cat.). According to the Vienna copy (G. Flügel ii. p. 122) it was composed A.H. 911 (A.D. 1505, 1506); the poet died A.H. 933 (A.D. 1526, 1527); see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 268 (col. 398 in this Cat.), and Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 385, No. 8922; comp. also for further details on Muḥyî and his work, Rieu ii. p. 655; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 260 and 261; Wiener Jahrbücher, vol. 71, Anzeigeblatt, p. 49, and Schefer, Sefer Nameh, Paris, 1881, Introd., pp. 57 and 58. It has been lithographed at Lucknow, A.H. 1292. Beginning: اى همه كس را بدرت التجا – كعبۀ دل را زتو نور وصفا The author׳s name, Muḥyî, appears on fol. 3b, l. 2. In an entry, on fol. 1a, this poem is incorrectly styled مناسك الحجّ . It is dated the 10th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1006 (A.D. 1598, March 18), at Makkah, by Imâm Ḳulî Ḳandarî (Ḳunduzî?) bin Daulatḳadam; it was bought of Sayyid Ḥusain at Mîlâpûr the 11th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1187 (A.D. 1773, June 2). College of Fort William, 1825. No. 2344, ff. 41, coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ, ff. 1-4 supplied by a more modern hand on white paper; many leaves of the older part greatly injured, half of fol. 5 being torn away besides; illustrations on ff. 20b, 22a, 23a, 24a, 24b, 26a, 26b, 27b, 28a,31a, 32a, 34a, 36b, 39a, 40b, and 41a; size 77/8 in.by 43/8 in.