[IO Islamic 639] ساقينامۀ ظهورى

Sâḳînâma-i-Żuhûrî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1509 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 639 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1509

A collection of six prose-treatises by Żuhûrî.

This collection contains:

1.Preface to the Nauras (ديباچۀ نورس), on fol. 1b, beginning: سرود سرايان عشرتكدۀ قال كه بنورس سرابستان حال كار كام و زبان ساخته اند الخ. The Nauras was, according to Rieu ii. p. 741b, a treatise on Indian music, composed by Ibrâhîm ‘Âdilshâh II himself, to whom this and the following two prefaces were dedicated; but comp. Rieu iii. p. 1091a, where a Kitâb-i-Nauras is mentioned as the joint work of Malik Ḳummî and Żuhûrî:

2.Preface to the Gulzâr-i-Ibrâhîm (ديباچۀ گلزار ابراهيم), on fol. 12b, beginning : خرّمى چمن سخن بطراوت حمد بهار الخ, comp. No. 1500, 4 above.

3.Preface to the Khwân-i-Khalîl (ديباچۀ خوان خليل), on fol. 23b, beginning:

اى از تو بر اهل تخت واكليل سبيل

گر ذكر جميل است و دگر قدر جليل الخ

These three treatises have been lithographed at Lucknow, A.H. 1264; at Cawnpore, A.H. 1269 and A.D. 1873; English translation, Calcutta, 1887; special copies of the same are noticed in Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1076, 1080, and 1241, 33, 36, and 37; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 15, No. 12; 33, Nos. 1 and 5; 1006, No. 1.

4.Ruḳa’ât or Panj ruḳ’ah (رقعات or پنج رقعه), five love-letters, here styled تبسّم شهدا, on fol. 46a, beginning: شهيد تبسّم ديت عشوۀ خونيها مقتول رنگین مطلب شيرين الخ . Edited, with commentaries, Cawnpore, A.H. 1280; special copies of this treatise are noticed in Rieu ii. p. 742, No. V; Bodleian Cat., No. 1080, 4; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 1007, No. 3.

5.Firâḳnâma (فراقنامه), or the farewell-letter, on fol. 50b, beginning: آب از فرق گذشته بحر قلزم شمر اشك دورى الخ .

6.Katkhudâ’î-i-Ḥusn u ‘Ishḳ (كتخدائئ حسن و عشق ), or the marriage of Beauty and Love, on fol. 54b, beginning: زيبا عروس دولت را كه از روز نخست نامزد عيش سگالیست الخ. A more prominent treatise of Żuhûrî’s, the مينا بازار (lithographed, with commentary, Dihlî, A.H. 1265, and Lucknow, A.H. 1282), is entirely missing in the India Office Collections.

This copy is dated the 24th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1770, Jan. 21), by Sayyid Ḳâsim.

No. 639, ff. 58, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 45/8 in.